Colors between two worlds : the Florentine codex of Bernardino de Sahagún /

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Imprint:	Florence : Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut : Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Cambridge, MA : Worldwide distribution by Harvard University Press, c2011.
Description:	xxi, 483 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; 28 Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 28.
Subject:	Sahagún, Bernardino de, -- -1590. -- Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España -- Congresses. Códice florentino -- Congresses. Códice florentino. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Bernardino, de Sahagún) Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses. Aztecs -- Congresses. Color -- Mexico -- 16th century -- Congresses. Natural history -- Mexico -- Congresses. Antiquities. Aztecs. Color. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican. Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities. Natural history. Mexico -- Antiquities -- Congresses. Mexico. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8769438

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Other authors / contributors:	Wolf, Gerhard, 1952- Connors, Joseph. Waldman, Louis Alexander. Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy) Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut.
ISBN:	9780674064621 (HUP) 0674064623 (HUP) 9788889854952 (OL) 8889854952 (OL)
Notes:	"Translation : Sabine Eiche (Rao, from the Italian) Debra Nagao (Bruquetas Galán and Garone Gravier, from the Spanish)"--T.p. verso. "Acts of a conference held at Villa I Tatti and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Florence 12-13 June 2008"--Series t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-460) and index.

Table of Contents:

The colors of the Virgin of Guadalupe / Clara Bargellini
Mediceo Palatino 218-220 of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana of Florence / Ida Giovanna Rao
Painters of the new world : the process of making the Florentine codex / Diana Magaloni Kerpel
On the nature of the pigments of the General history of the things of New Spain : the Florentine codex / Piero Baglioni ... [et al.]
In Nepapan Xochitl : the power of flowers in the works of Sahagún / Berenice Alcántara Rojas
Plants and colors in the Florentine codex / Salvador Reyes Equiguas
Sahagún's codex and book design in the indigenous context / Marina Garone Gravier
"Istoria della terra chiamata la nuova spagna" : the history and reception of Sahagún's codex at the Medici court / Lia Markey
The encoded language of herbs : material insights into the De la Cruz-Badiano codex / Sandra Zetina... [et al.]
Textile colors and colorants in the Andes / Elena Phipps
Local and imported colors : the Spanish maritime trade and the pigment supply in New Spain / Rocío Bruquetas Galán
The pigment trade in Europe during the sixteenth century / Louisa C. Matthew
The Venetian pigment trade in the sixteenth century / Roland Krischel
I saw it with my own eyes : the three illustrated manuscripts of colonial Peru / Thomas Cummins
Colors and cultures in the Andes / Gabriela Siracusano
Afterword : "Colors between two worlds : the Codice Fiorentino of Bernardino de Sahagún" / Francesco Pellizzi
Postface : uncatchable colors / Alessandra Russo.

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