—Ashley Busby

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

many of which are set in the Latino communities of Southern California

The accompanying commentary identifies and explains the details of Hoefnagel's exquisitely crafted illuminations

and Edith Ingalls Vignos

The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex nostalgia —Ashley BusbyDiana 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