Abstract
The theme of the contribution is represented by the Mexican conventual architecture that was born in 16th-century New Spain with the aim of evangelizing and acculturating its indigenous peoples. The paper presents this unique architecture along with its artistic decoration in the form of mural paintings and sculptural reliefs.
It is based on field research data, during which the author visited 116 monasteries located in the territory of Central Mexico. The main objective of the contribution is the question of the interpretation of this architecture and its art and this from the point of view of three scientific disciplines (history, art history and anthropology).
Eventually, the contribution also seeks the possibilities and at the same time the limits of interdisciplinary approaches in contemporary science, in which the importance of interdisciplinarity as well as visual sources and interpretative approaches grows.