In March 1568, the first Jesuit expedition arrived at the port of Callao and soon after, the San Pablo School and Church was created in Lima, today known as the San Pedro Church. The historical and artistic importance of this architectural jewel of the viceroyalty period, built more than 400...
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Iconology of the perugian Cesare Ripa is one of the most influential emblematic and iconographic books of the 17th century. Its first edition of 1593 was printed without illustrations. The Roman of 1603, here presented, appeared with more than 150 engravings whose representations and descriptions sought to illustrate poets, painters and...
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Princeton University has a large digital library made of excellent collections. Among these are the miscellany of Mesoamerican manuscripts coming from other collections: Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts Collection (C0744), Garrett Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0744), and Princeton Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0940). Among the manuscripts in custody are: el Chilam Balam de...
The book written by Juan de Horozco and Covarrubias, Emblemas morales, (Moral emblem) is the first emblematic book printed in Spain. Horozco belongs to a distinguished family of humanists and clerics who held important positions of power in the Spanish main courts. After the editio princeps, his book of emblems...