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050 4 $aNK470.M4$bM6613 2006
130 0 $aMuseo Franz Mayer.$lEnglish.
245 00 $aFranz Mayer Museum :$b20 years of art and culture in Mexico /$cphotograph, Arturo Chapa ; [Federico Rubli Kaiser, general coordinator].
260 $aMéxico, D.F. :$bChapa Ediciones,$cc2006.
300 $a373 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.), facsims., ports. ;$c35 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 367-369).
520 $a"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 by collector and financial entrepreneur Franz Mayer to the people of México. Contents include authoritative studies by noted researchers regarding the life of collector and photographer Franz Mayer, the history of the colonial building located in downtown Mexico City transformed first into a hospice and later the Hospital of San Juan de Dios and the collection, a collection of art pieces centered in colonial art and decorative arts created for religious and personal purpose such as: silverware, ceramics, furniture, religious objects, textiles, the library and its rare and antique books and manuscripts and the house furnishings. This handsome publication is illustrated with extraordinary full-page color plates of religious paintings and sculptures; silver chalices and lecterns; embroidered textiles; objects made from ceramic and with objects and furniture that decorated the wealthy colonial houses in Mexico like small portable writing desks to large wardrobes, manuscripts and illustrated books, portraits, rich clothes and jewels, scientific instruments, tin-glazed earthenware lacquered wood, and the aristocratic "cocos chocolateros" (coconut shells mounted in silver) and special gold cases where Mexican gentlemen and ladies drank chocolate and kept their cigarettes"--Provided by vendor.
610 20 $aMuseo Franz Mayer (Mexico City, Mexico)
650 0 $aDecorative arts$zMexico$zMexico City.
650 0 $aDecorative arts, Spanish colonial$zMexico.
600 10 $aMayer, Franz,$d1882-1975.
700 1 $aChapa, Arturo.
700 1 $aRubli K., Federico$q(Rubli Kaiser)
988 $a20081103
906 $0OCLC