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Description: Noble Indian Man of Quito in His Finery (Yndio Principal de Quito en trage de Gala)

TitleNoble Indian Man of Quito in His Finery (Yndio Principal de Quito en trage de Gala)

Creator nameAlbán, Vicente

Creator nationality/cultureEcuadorean

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1783

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMuseo de América, Madrid

Accession number00071

SubjectsIndians of South AmericaNatural history--Latin AmericaPainting, EcuadorianPortrait painting--18th century

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Chapter 3: Collecting: From Wonder to Order

Daniela Bleichmar

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

~The early modern period was the first truly global era, a time of unprecedented voyages and encounters. Although explorers, conquistadors, settlers, missionaries, traders, and slaves journeyed farther than ever before, the great...

Author

Daniela Bleichmar

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.91-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00268.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21538&redirecttoanchor=68499

Chapter subject tags:Natural history--Latin AmericaVisual culture--Latin AmericaCollectors and collecting--Latin America--16th centuryCabinets of curiositiesNaturalists--Latin America--16th centuryBotanical illustration--Latin AmericaLigozzi, Jacopo, 1547-1626Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, 1588-1657Dutch--BrazilEeckhout, Albert van der, active 1637-1664Post, Frans Jansz, 1612-1680Indigenous peoples--Latin AmericaIndigenous peoples--BrazilTropical fruit--Latin AmericaMerian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778Natural history--Classification

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