Ejemplar con sobrecubierta.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 367-369).

"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 created for religious and personal purpose such as: silver ware, 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 earthen ware 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.