Author: Thomas B. F. Cummins
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892368942
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Here is a set of essays on Historia general del Piru that discuss not only the manuscript's physical components--quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments--but also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish sources and publication procedures. The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure.
The Getty Murua
Author: Thomas B. F. Cummins
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892368942
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Here is a set of essays on Historia general del Piru that discuss not only the manuscript's physical components--quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments--but also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish sources and publication procedures. The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892368942
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Here is a set of essays on Historia general del Piru that discuss not only the manuscript's physical components--quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments--but also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish sources and publication procedures. The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure.
The Getty Murúa
Author: Barbara Christine Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Manuscript Cultures of Colonial Mexico and Peru
Author: Thomas B. F. Cummins
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Cochineal Red
Author: Elena Phipps
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393615
Category : Cochineal
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized." "This book discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the 16th century. Drawing on examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, it documents the use of this red-colored treasure in several media and throughout the world.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393615
Category : Cochineal
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
From antiquity to the present day, color has been embedded with cultural meaning. Associated with blood, fire, fertility, and life force, the color red has always been extremely difficult to achieve and thus highly prized." "This book discusses the origin of the red colorant derived from the insect cochineal, its early use in Precolumbian ritual textiles from Mexico and Peru, and the spread of the American dyestuff through cultural interchange following the Spanish discovery and conquest of the New World in the 16th century. Drawing on examples from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, it documents the use of this red-colored treasure in several media and throughout the world.
History of the Incas
Author: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Art and Vision in the Inca Empire
Author: Adam Herring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107094364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power and includes over sixty color images.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107094364
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book offers a new, art-historical interpretation of pre-contact Inca culture and power and includes over sixty color images.
Looking at Textiles
Author: Elena Phipps
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060805
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A guide to the fundamentals of the materials and techniques used to create textiles.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060805
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A guide to the fundamentals of the materials and techniques used to create textiles.
American Quilts & Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Amelia Peck
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art
The First New Chronicle and Good Government
Author: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and colonial Peruvian material culture ever done. Working from the original manuscript and consulting with fellow Quechua- and Spanish-language experts, Roland Hamilton here provides the most complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the first third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The sections included in this volume (pages 1–369 of the manuscript) cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of each of the Inca rulers and their wives, as well as a wealth of information about ordinances, age grades, the calendar, idols, sorcerers, burials, punishments, jails, songs, palaces, roads, storage houses, and government officials. One hundred forty-six of Guaman Poma's detailed illustrations amplify the text.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and colonial Peruvian material culture ever done. Working from the original manuscript and consulting with fellow Quechua- and Spanish-language experts, Roland Hamilton here provides the most complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the first third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The sections included in this volume (pages 1–369 of the manuscript) cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of each of the Inca rulers and their wives, as well as a wealth of information about ordinances, age grades, the calendar, idols, sorcerers, burials, punishments, jails, songs, palaces, roads, storage houses, and government officials. One hundred forty-six of Guaman Poma's detailed illustrations amplify the text.
Interwoven Globe
Author: Amy Elizabeth Bogansky
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394964
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394964
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 16, 2013-Jan. 5, 2014.