Title & Author:

Colors between two worlds : the Florentine codex of Bernardino de Sahagún / edited by Gerhard Wolf and Joseph Connors ; in collaboration with Louis A. Waldman.

Publication:

Florence : Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut : Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, [2011]
Cambridge, MA : Worldwide distribution by Harvard University Press
©2011

Description:

xxi, 483 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Series:

Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; 28

Notes:
"Translation : Sabine Eiche (Rao, from the Italian) Debra Nagao (Bruquetas Galán and Garone Gravier, from the Spanish)"--Title page verso.
"Acts of a conference held at Villa I Tatti and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Florence 12-13 June 2008"--Series title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-460) and index.
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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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.

Summary:

For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), often described as the first anthropologist of the New World, worked with his indigenous colleagues at the Collegio Imperial at Tlatelolco (now Mexico City) on an encyclopedic compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts, and economy of the vanishing culture of the Aztecs. Colors Between Two Worlds examines the most richly illustrated manuscript of this great ethnographic work, the Florentine Codex, which is in the collection of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, through the issue of color. The Codex reveals how the colors the Aztecs used in their artistic production and in everyday life, as well as the names they gave each color, illuminate their understanding of the world around them, from the weather to the curing of disease. The pigments and dyes that indigenous artists used to illustrate the Codex reflect a larger dialogue between native and European cultures, which the Florentine Codex records more fully than any surviving document from colonial New Spain.

Resources:
TOC
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780674064621 (HUP)
0674064623 (HUP)
(OL)
9788889854952
8889854952

Subject:

Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590. 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)
Codex Florentinus
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican Congresses.
Indians of Mexico Antiquities Congresses.
Aztecs Congresses.
Color Mexico 16th century Congresses.
Natural history Mexico Congresses.
Enluminure mexicaine Congrès.
Aztèques Congrès.
Couleur Mexique 16e siècle Congrès.
Sciences naturelles Mexique Congrès.
Peuples autochtones Mexique Antiquités Congrès.
Congressi Firenze 2008.
Antiquities
Aztecs
Color
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mexican
Indians of Mexico Antiquities
Natural history
Mexico Antiquities Congresses.
Mexique Antiquités Congrès.
Mexico

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Wolf, Gerhard, 1952- editor.
Connors, Joseph, editor.
Waldman, Louis Alexander, collaborator.
Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy)
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut.
Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 28.

Florentine codex of Bernardino de Sahagún

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279250
Call No.: BIB 215241
Status: Available