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Description: Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America

TitleDiscovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America

Creator nameStradanus

Creator nationality/cultureFlemish

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1589

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsPen and brown ink heightened with white

Dimensions7 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/343845

Accession number1974.205

SubjectsMannerism (Art)America--Discovery and explorationIndigenous peoples--AmericaArtists' preparatory studies

StatusPreparatory drawing for the first engraved plate in the series Nova Reperta

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Chapter 1: Rewriting the Book of Nature

Daniela Bleichmar

Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

~When the French writer André Thevet in 1557 published an account of the voyage he had taken to Brazil two years earlier, his printer worried that readers would find much in the text hard to believe. Might they not reasonably doubt the veracity of...

Author

Daniela Bleichmar

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-43

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00268.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21536&redirecttoanchor=21021

Chapter subject tags:Natural history--Latin AmericaThevet, André, 1502-1590Visual culture--Latin AmericaIndigenous peoples--South AmericaSouth America--Discovery and ExplorationColumbus, ChristopherPictorial maps--Latin America--16th centuryPrints, Netherlandish--16th centuryBotanical illustration--Latin America--16th centuryTraditional medicine--Latin America--16th centuryCódice florentinoIndigenous peoples--Latin America

1. Labyrinths of Meaning in Vanderlyn’s Ariadne

David M. Lubin

Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America

~~John Vanderlyn had the world ahead of him. It was the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the young American who was living in Paris had already won acclaim for two powerful history paintings that had proven him to be not only up-to-date in his pictorial aesthetics but also strikingly political.

Author

David M. Lubin

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-53

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00093.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15954&redirecttoanchor=21021

Chapter subject tags:Ariadne (Greek mythology)Neoclassicism (Art)Female nude in artSlavery in artVanderlyn, John, 1775-1852

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