Colors of New World Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the - Florentine Code

Introductory essay by Cuauhtemoc Medina.

About the author

Diana Magaloni Kerpel is a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has served as director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City.

Summary

In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun and 22 indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create the first illustrated encyclopedia in the New World. This title deals with this manuscript.

Product details

• Authors: Kerpel Magaloni Diana, Kerpel Magaloni Magaloni Kerpel Diana, . Kerpel, .. Kerpel, Diana Magalori Kerpel, Diana Magaloni Kerpel
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9781606063293
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-329-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Getty Research Institute Counc; Getty Research Institute Counc; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Getty Publications -
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history