"A deluxe edition featuring the museum's collection and the 16th century building that houses it. The book honors the museums history and the cultural and patrimonial legacy left bycollector and financial entrepreneur Franz Mayer to the people of México. Contentsinclude authoritative studies by noted researchers regarding the life of collector and photographerFranz Mayer, the history of the colonial building located in downtown Mexico City transformedfirst into a hospice and later the Hospital of San Juan de Dios and the collection, a collectionof art pieces centered in colonial art created for religious and personal purpose such as:silverware, ceramics, furniture, religious objects, textiles, the library and its rare and antiquebooks and manuscripts and the house furnishings. This handsome publication is illustrated withextraordinary full-page color plates of religious paintings and sculptures; silver chalices andlecterns; embroidered textiles; objects made from ceramic and with objects and furniture thatdecorated the wealthy colonial houses in Mexico like small portable writing desks to largewardrobes, manuscripts and illustrated books, portraits, rich clothes and jewels, scientificinstruments, tin-glazed earthenware lacquered wood, and the aristocratic "cocos chocolateros" (coconut shells mounted in silver) and special gold cases where Mexicangentlemen and ladies drank chocolate and kept their cigarettes"--Provided by vendor.