page_title: Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin
section_title: Mass of St. Gregory
hierarchical_section_title: Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin / Mass of St. Gregory
caption_attribution_description: English: The Mass of St. Gregory as depicted by Diego Huanitzin, the Aztec puppet ruler under the Spanish between 1539 and 1541. This technique, Mexican feather work, was a specialty of Aztec craftsmen called amanteca. This particular piece is the oldest extant example of Christian art in the Americas.
context_page_description: Don Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin was a 16th-century Nahua noble. A grandson of Axayacatl, Nephew of tlatoani Moctezuma II. He was initially the tlatoani of Ecatepec before becoming tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, as well as its first governor under the colonial Spanish system of government.
context_section_description: Huanitzin may have created a featherwork representation of the Mass of Saint Gregory, after a Dutch engraving. Dated 1539, it is the earliest dated work of art in New Spain.
caption: The Mass of St Gregory, possibly by Huanitzin.
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