10 1/4 x 13 inches

—Ashley Busby

and Edith Ingalls Vignos

the contents of this book highlight three thousand years of the iconography of death and resurrection

this book brings to life one of the world's most luminous substances

The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex nostalgia 10 1/4 x 13 inchesDiana Magaloni Kerpel In August 1576, in the midst of an outbreak of the plague, the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagn and twenty two indigenous artists locked themselves inside the school of Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco in Mexico City with a mission: to create nothing less than the first illustrated encyclopedia of the New World. Today this twelve volume manuscript is preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence and is widely