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Extended Interview: Diana Magaloni on the Power of Pigments

Clip: 11/13/2018 | 2m 52s  | Video has closed captioning.

Art historian Diana Magaloni illuminates the extraordinary measures Aztec artists took to preserve their culture in the Florentine Codex. Using colors and materials that possessed energies from the natural world, they imbued their paintings with a special symbolic life force.

Aired: 11/13/18

Rating: NR

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