Manuscript cultures of colonial Mexico and Peru : new questions and approaches /
This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts, the Galvin Murúa, the Getty Murúa, the Florentine Cod...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
Getty Research Institute,
[2014]
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| Series: | Issues & debates.
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| Summary: | This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual, iconographic or codicological studies. Using state-of-the-art conservation technologies, scholars investigate how four manuscripts, the Galvin Murúa, the Getty Murúa, the Florentine Codex and the Relación de Michoacán, were created and demonstrate why these objects must be studied in a comparative context. The forensic study of manuscripts provides art historians, anthropologists, curators and conservators with effective methods for determining authorship, identifying technical innovations and contextualizing illustrated histories. This information, in turn, allows for more nuanced arguments that transcend the information that the written texts and painted images themselves provide. The book encourages scholars to think broadly about the manuscripts of colonial Mexico and Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and employ new techniques and methods of research. |
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| Item Description: | "The essays by Marina Garone Gravier, Diana Magaloni Kerpel, and Juan M. Ossio A. were translated by Marisol Wohl"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781606064351 1606064355 1606061488 9781606061480 |