File:"America" (Engraving) Nova reperta (Speculum diuersarum imaginum speculatiuarum 1638).tif

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English: "Americae Retectio", circa 1615 ("Allegory of America" engraving by Jan Galle after Jan van der Straet). The scene depicts Amerigo Vespucci representing the Old World explorers as he wakes up a Native American from her hammock slumber. Local flora and fauna dot the background, as well as natives having a cannibalistic roast. Johannes Stradanus or van der Straat, (1523-1605) was a Flemish artist but spent much of his life in Florence. Stradanus sent his original drawings of "Nova Reperta" ("New Inventions"), a Renaissance celebration of recent discoveries both scientific and geographical, to Antwerp where they were first engraved and published by Phillipe Galle circa 1600. In Speculum diuersarum imaginum speculatiuarum a varijs viris doctis adinuentarum, atq[ue] insignibus pictoribus ac sculptoribus delineatarum... (Antwerp: Jan Galle, 1638). The original from which this was scanned is found at the Smithsonian Library
Español: "Americae Retectio", circa 1615. La escena muestra a Americo Vespucci despertando a una indígena americana contra untransforndo de la flora y fauna americana, y algunos indígenas canibales en la distancia. Johannes Stradanus o van der Straat, (1523-1605) era un artista flamenco que pasó mucho de su vida en Florencia.
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Source 1638, Speculum diuersarum imaginum speculatiuarum
Author Jan Galle
After Stradanus  (1523–1605)  wikidata:Q143595
 
After Stradanus
Alternative names
Jan van der Straet, Giovanni della Strada, Johannes della Strada, Giovanni Stradano, Johannes Stradano, Giovanni Stradanus, Johannes Stradanus, Jan van Straeten, Jan van Straten
Description Flemish painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1523 Edit this at Wikidata 2 November 1605 / 3 November 1605 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bruges Edit this at Wikidata Florence Edit this at Wikidata
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Antwerp (1545), Florence (circa 1550-1605), Rome (circa 1550-1553), Montemurlo (1590)
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creator QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q143595

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