The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/10/18
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Lecture by Diana Magaloni Kerpel November 7, 2013 Getty Center Created in 1576 by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and 22 indigenous artists in Mexico City, the Florentine Codex is the single most important artistic and historical document for the study of pre-Hispanic and colonial central Mexico. Diana Magaloni Kerpel of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) illuminates one of the world's great manuscripts, created at a pivotal moment in the early modern Americas. Sponsored by the Getty Research Institute Council. For more about this lecture, visit the Getty Research Institute's website: www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/florentine_codex.html
