With its painstaking attention to detail

who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic meaning

Paul Getty Museum in 2000

and artist

The Getty Murúa: Essays on the Making of Martín de Murúa's "Historia General del Piru," J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 fantasy With its painstaking attention toEdited by Thomas B. F. Cummins and Barbara Anderson Written by the Mercedarian friar Martn de Mura, the Historia general del Piru (1616) is one of only three extant illustrated manuscripts on the history of Inca and early colonial Peru. This set of essays discusses not only the manuscript's physical componentsquires and watermarks, scripts and pigmentsbut also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish