Contents
XI Joseph Connors
Foreword:
Colors Between Two Worlds:
The Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún
XVII Gerhard Wolf
Foreword:
A Rainbow of Two Worlds: Introductory Remarks
3 Clara Bargellini
The Colors of the Virgin of Guadalupe
27 Ida Giovanna Rao
Mediceo Palatino 218–220 of the Biblioteca
Medicea Laurenziana of Florence
47 Diana Magaloni Kerpel
Painters of the New World: The Process of Making the Florentine Codex
79 Piero Baglioni, Rodorico Giorgi, Marcia Carolina Arroyo,
David Chelazzi, Francesca Ridi and Diana Magaloni Kerpel
On the Nature of the Pigments of the General History
of the Things of New Spain: The Florentine Codex
107 Berenice Alcántara Rojas
In Nepapan Xochitl: The Power of Flowers in the Works of Sahagún
135 Salvador Reyes Equiguas
Plants and Colors in the Florentine Codex
157 Marina Garone Gravier
Sahagún’s Codex and Book Design in the Indigenous Context
199 Lia Markey
“Istoria della terra chiamata la nuova spagna”: The History
and Reception of Sahagún’s Codex at the Medici Court
221 Sandra Zetina, Tatiana Falcón, Elsa Arroyo,
and Jose Luis Ruvalcaba
The Encoded Language of Herbs: Material Insights into the
De la Cruz–Badiano Codex
257 Elena Phipps
Textile Colors and Colorants in the Andes
283 Rocío Bruquetas Galán
Local and Imported Colors: The Spanish Maritime Trade
and the Pigment Supply in New Spain
301 Louisa C. Matthew
The Pigment Trade in Europe during the Sixteenth Century
317 Roland Krischel
The Venetian Pigment Trade in the Sixteenth Century
335 Thomas Cummins
I Saw It with My Own Eyes:
The Three Illustrated Manuscripts of Colonial Peru
367 Gabriela Siracusano
Colors and Cultures in the Andes
379 Francesco Pellizzi
Afterword: “Colors Between Two Worlds:
The Codice Fiorentino of Bernardino de Sahagún”
389 Alessandra Russo
Postface: Uncatchable Colors
413 Bibliography
463 Photo Credits
469 Index