Colors Between Two Worlds The Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún |
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| Editor:
| Wolf, Gerhard
Connors, Joseph |
| As told to:
| Waldman, Louis A. |
| Series title: | Villa I Tatti Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-06462-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | Villa I Tatti
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $70.00 |
Book Description:
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For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499âe"1590) worked on a compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts, and economy of the vanishing Aztec culture. This volume examines the Aztec use of colorâe"in art and everyday lifeâe"as revealed in the Codex, the most richly illustrated manuscript of this great ethnographic work.
For half a century the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún (1499âe"1590) worked on a compendium of the beliefs, rituals, language, arts, and economy of the vanishing Aztec culture. This volume examines the Aztec use of colorâe"in art and everyday lifeâe"as revealed in the Codex, the most richly illustrated manuscript of this great ethnographic work.