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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Grinding and mixing subtle elements |
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With artful brush and learned quill: colour and counsel in Spanish manuals |
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1 | (1) |
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Newly identified materials: matter as document |
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2 | (6) |
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8 | (46) |
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Chapter 2 Mechanical and servile arts in Spain and Andean America: colour in the workshop |
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54 | (20) |
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The production and organisation of mechanical learning |
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55 | (2) |
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Dyes, colours and urban spaces |
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57 | (1) |
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The defence of noble painting: a marvel of understanding |
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57 | (2) |
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The Andean painter's trade |
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59 | (4) |
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63 | (11) |
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Chapter 3 Saturn and Mercury in the workshop: hermetic and practical learning |
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74 | (27) |
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Colours and Andean science: Alvaro Alonso Barba and Arte de los metales |
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77 | (4) |
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Chemistry, mineralogy and alchemy in the use of pigments: recipes for transmutation or colouring? |
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81 | (2) |
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Subterranean treasures: Potosi in the imaginary |
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83 | (1) |
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Secrets between Spain and Andean America: circulation and appropriation |
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84 | (7) |
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Coming back to the workshop |
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91 | (10) |
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Chapter 4 Good medicines of all coloures: healing and painting in Andean America |
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101 | (27) |
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Colours at the apothecary's shop |
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101 | (4) |
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They do consume malice, correct the humoures: chromatic pharmacopoeia in the ancient lands of the Inca |
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105 | (3) |
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Colours between bodies, souls and Andean sacralities |
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108 | (1) |
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The spectrum in practice and representations of power in the Andes |
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109 | (2) |
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Between the indeterminate and the perfect: the rainbow and healing by colours |
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111 | (6) |
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The power of healing images |
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117 | (11) |
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Chapter 5 Representations, colours and powers of the sacred |
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128 | (37) |
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Are these not guacas too, like to oure owne?: the problem of representation in the Andes |
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128 | (3) |
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131 | (1) |
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The visible and the invisible through the eyes of body and soul |
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132 | (3) |
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Sermons, images and colour: loci of memory |
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135 | (4) |
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Colours in the extirpation of idolatries: colour - substance or accident? |
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139 | (2) |
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Coloured powders as bearers of sacred power |
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141 | (2) |
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Preparing colours for the celestial workshop: disegno, simulacrum and colour |
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143 | (4) |
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Marshalling the powers of colour: mixtures most divine |
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147 | (18) |
| Bibliography |
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