Author : Thomas B. F. Cummins,Emily Engel,Barbara Anderson,Juan Ossio
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064351
Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru by Thomas B. F. Cummins,Emily Engel,Barbara Anderson,Juan Ossio Pdf
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.