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Spanish, Portuguese

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oai:doaj.org/article:c2401c93fde94448b478f57904082ba6

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DOI: <

10.35305/prohistoria.vi.1338

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Travel books, suit books. Uniqueness and classification of the American iconographic repertoire in the 16th century

Abstract

The article distinguishes the production of a unique iconographic repertoire on America from its ethno-iconographic use in the books of suits produced in the second half of the 16th century. First, it examines how the American experience was ‘translated’ into texts and images intelligible to the European reader. It then focuses on the second of the intellectual transactions mentioned above, since it analyses the presence of images about the New World in new referencing and sense channels. The inclusion of American iconography in the suit books reveals its potential and limitations as visual and global devices for early and modern knowledge.

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