Conversation: Remarkable Women, The Mayas and Art History with María Teresa Uriarte

ABOUT MARÍA TERESA URIARTE

Spinster’s Mayan Rescue, Adela Breton

María Teresa Uriarte, or Tere, is the Project Director of the Pre-Hispanic Mural Painting Project in Mexico. At Dumbarton Oaks, she offered the Pre-Columbian Studies Public Lecture in 2013 entitled Sacrificial Blood, Death and Rebirth in Pre-Columbian Mural Painting. She has spent her entire professional career at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), having served as head of the Cultural Affairs Department and the Institute of Aesthetic Research. She is the author of 18 books, 56 chapters and 16 articles for specialized Mexican journals.

ABOUT THE TALK

“During the 19th century the world lived through an amazing frenzy for discovery and discoveries. New territories, both geographical and cultural, were sought out and explored. What is now called Mesoamerica drew a huge range of visitors with different interests and motivations: adventurers, photographers, artists and self-declared antiquarians and archaeologists. But, where were women when this was happening? I will tell you about some intriguing stories of women breaking rules, treading new ground and bequeathing us visual and written accounts of their finds.”