Kim N. Richter
Bio
Kim is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute, a scholar of Pre-Columbian art history, and co-curator of the exhibition Golden Kingdoms: Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas. My specialty is Huastec art produced by a pre-Hispanic culture located on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico. I am currently the co-head of the Florentine Codex initiative, focused on a beautifully painted, 16th-century encyclopedia from Mexico written in Spanish and Nahuatl (the language of the Aztecs).
Stories
Competing Narratives on the Conquest of Mexico and the Fall of the Aztec Empire
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A Getty Initiative to provide greater access to the Florentine Codex, the first Indigenous encyclopedia of the New World
Revitalizing an Endangered Indigenous Language
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Two educators from Eastern Mexico are fostering Nahuatl in their local communities and through Getty’s Florentine Codex Initiative
Unearthing the Secrets of Color
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How artist Sandy Rodriguez uses a 16th-century manuscript as contemporary inspiration
Getty Voices
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Co-curator Kim Richter gives a glimpse of ancient Latin America’s cultural and linguistic plurality that have modern impacts
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