Spanier sampt etlichen München werden von Indianern gemetziget XVI.

Title

Spanier sampt etlichen München werden von Indianern gemetziget XVI.

Description

Illustration shows how the indigenous Indians of the pearl island Isla Margarita defended themselves against the Spanish monks. German description below the image. Back without text.

ca. 1594

Artist

Bry, De - Benzoni (1519-1572)

Girolamo Benzoni (1519 -1572 in Spain) was an Italian traveler and historian during the Renaissance. The son of a Milanese merchant, Benzoni traveled to Germany and Spain on business, eventually joining Spanish voyages of discovery in the New World in 1542. Benzoni visited Peru and the West Indies and returned to Spain in 1556. His Historia del Mondo nuovo bears strong autobiographical features. It is based on older sources, but also contains many of Benzoni's own observations. He is listed in the history books as the first European to have seen the Chimborasso. Furthermore, he is considered to be the handler of the famous story about the "Egg of Columbus".----Theodorus de Bry (1528-1598) Frankfurt a.M. Around 1570, Theodorus de Bry, a Protestant, fled religious persecution south to Strasbourg, along the west bank of the Rhine. In 1577, he moved to Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant, which was part of the Spanish Netherlands or Southern Netherlands and Low Countries of that time (16th Century), where he further developed and used his skills as a copper engraver. Between 1585 and 1588 he lived in London, where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt and began to collect stories and illustrations of various European explorations, most notably from Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World, as recounted by Bartolome de las Casas in Narratio Regionum indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam devastatarum verissima. In 1588, Theodorus and his family moved permanently to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he became citizen and began to plan his first publications. The most famous one is known as Les Grands Voyages, i.e., The Great Travels, or The Discovery of America. He also published the largely identical India Orientalis-series, as well as many other illustrated works on a wide range of subjects. His books were published in Latin, and were also translated into German, English and French to reach a wider reading public. The two collections of travelogues published by Theodor de Bry in Frankfurt are among the most important of the early modern period and established his reputation for posterity: He created The Arrival of Columbus in the New World in 1594. The West Indian Voyages (ed. 1590-1618) chronicled the discovery and conquest of the Americas by Europeans, while the East Indian Voyages followed the rise of Holland as a trading power in Asia around 1600. Both series appeared in German and Latin, were intended for a European audience, and were richly illustrated with copper engravings. Theodor de Bry was only able to publish six parts of his complete works. After his death, his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel and then Johann Theodor's son-in-law Matthäus Merian continued the work until 1634. In the end, it contained 25 parts and over 1500 copper engravings. The brothers were succeeded as engravers and publishers by Sebastian Furck.

Historical Description

Isla Margarita is a Caribbean island that belongs to the state of Venezuela.During his third voyage of discovery, Christopher Columbus discovered the island in August 1498 and named it after the massive pearl occurrence (Margarita means "pearl"). According to tradition, the pearl fishermen of the island "discovered" him and are said to have given the Spaniards rich gifts.