La Huella de los Tlacuilos Tradiciön y aculturación en la Misa de san Gregorio del Museo des Jacobins de Auch (Francia).

Among all presents and trophies brought back to Europe from the Americas during the XVIth century feather works were the most appreciated. Feather art thus became a true symbol of the New World. It has remained so even in recent médias such as comic strips, cinema and publicity. When Christianising the Indians, the Catholic Church gave much importance to feather art and made it into an ambassador in the Old World. During the colonial period this art form, essentially religious and mixed, was developed and melded European influences and indigenous techniques. Numerous pieces associating feathers and gold, precious stones and other materials were created. Feathers were thus used to produce chalices, statues, triptychs, tabernacles, liturgical garments and above all religious images. The Saint Gregory Mass in the Museum of Auch (southern France), dated to 1539, is without doubt the most interesting of these images, in particular due to the presence of indigenous elements. Even though discrete they bear witness to the hand of the tlacuilo, the Aztec "scribepainter". This paper discusses the continuous presence of Indian iconographie elements in the religious art of New Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]