TO DO:
Clik on the link below the picture above, read the text by Dr Kilroy-Ewbank, then answer the following questions:
- Who first drew the scene?
- What is the date of this ink drawing?
- Who made the engraving of the drawing?
- When was this etching made?
- When did Vespucci explore the Americas?
- What does Vespucci's cape hide?
- How is Vespucci dressed, what is he doing, why is he there?
- Why is he holding a banner with a crucifix on top?
- What is an astrolabe used for?
- What is the Ameridian woman doing; why is she almost naked?
- What does she symbolize?
- What exotic flora and fauna are depicted?
- What are the people in the middle distance up to?
- Who invented printing, the compass and gunpowder?
- Did Columbus believe he had found a new route to Asia?
- Were the “Indios” all the same people?
- What were non-Christians called?
- Why did printmakers feel free to invent figures and motifs in their illustrations of publications about the Americas?
- Why did Europeans view America as exotic and primitive?
- How do YOU see “Indiens” (from the USA)?
