Name: The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex (Getty Research Institute Council Lecture Series)
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The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex (Getty Research Institute Council Lecture Series)

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EAN: 9781606063293 SKU: GETTYRESEARCHINSTITUTE-20FULL-COLOURILLUSTRATIONS Categories: Arts & Photography Criticism, General Books & Reading

In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and twenty-two indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create nothing less than the first illustrated encyclopedia of the New World. Today this twelve-volume manuscript is preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and is widely known as the Florentine Codex.

A monumental achievement, the Florentine Codex is the single most important artistic and historical document for studying the peoples and cultures of pre-Hispanic and colonial Central Mexico. It reflects both indigenous and Spanish traditions of writing and painting, including parallel columns of text in Spanish and Nahuatl and more than two thousand watercolor illustrations prepared in European and Aztec pictorial styles. This volume reveals the complex meanings inherent in the selection of the pigments used in the manuscript, offering a fascinating look into a previously hidden symbolic language. Drawing on cutting edge approaches in art history, anthropology, and the material sciences, the book sheds new light on one of the world’s great manuscripts―and on a pivotal moment in the early modern Americas.

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PartNumber	20 full-colour illustrations	Manufacturer	Getty Research Institute
Brand	Getty Research Institute	Author	Diana, Kerpel Magaloni
Item Weight	0.45 Pounds	ItemDimensions	6 x 0.4 x 8.25Inches
NumberOfItems	1	binding	Paperback
Amazon Category	Books » Arts & Photography » Art History & Criticism » Arts & Photography Criticism	Amazon Category	Books » Literature & Fiction » Literary Criticism » Book History & Criticism » General Books & Reading
ISBN	1606063294	EAN	9781606063293

Weight	0.45 lbs

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