De Bonampak al Templo Mayor
Subtitle: el azul maya en Mesoamérica
By: Constantino Reyes-Valerio.
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Colección América nuestra ;; 40.; América antigua; Colección América nuestra (Mexico City, Mexico) ;; 40.; Colección América nuestra (Mexico City, Mexico).
Publisher: Siglo Veintiuno Editores; Agro Asemex
Published: 1993
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Maya art; Maya painting; Blue in art; Mayas -- Antiquities
Description: "Study of 'Maya blue' an intense sky-blue pigment used to decorate precolumbian pottery (especially but not exclusively Maya polychromes) and for precolumbian and early colonial period murals. Concludes that the pigment was produced by combining mineral pigments with indigo. Includes many color illustrations of ceramic vessels, figurines, and murals with Maya blue paint"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-157).