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430 years ago today, in March 1493, Indigenous Americans discovered Europe: a land of marvels & savagery, death & wonder. The Taíno travellers landed with Columbus at Lisbon after a storm crippled the ship & forced a landing in Portugal. https://t.co/ihmzcEeCtD #OnSavageShores 1/
Totentanz (Dance of Death), illustration by Michael Wolgemut from Liber Chronicarum, also known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. Date: c. 1493, by Hartmann Schedel
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Leonardo da Vinci 🇮🇹 (1452-1519)
"Virgin of the Rocks"
c. 1483-1493, Louvre version
W. African folklore, manatees were thought to have once been human. 1493, Columbus thought he saw mermaids, "they are not half as beautiful as they are painted." In Moby Dick, Melville called them noisy, contemptible pig-fish that feed on wet hay.
#nonfiction #kidlitart #manatees
From 1493, illustrations of the Genesis story of creation in the “Nuremberg Chronicle.” https://t.co/mFanWjw4Oh
“El día previo, cuando el Almirante (Colón) fue al Río del Oro, vio tres sirenas que aparecieron en la superficie del mar; éstas no eran hermosas como se pintan, aunque tienen algo en la cara de humanas”.
-9 de enero de 1493, bitácora Nº 146 de la expedición de Cristóbal Colón.
Several people have asked if we'll ever get to see the spaniards in #CodexBlack, and the answer is NO.
The story begins in 1493, when #Donaji is 14 y/o.
In 1519, when Cortés arrives to the coasts of Mexico, Donaji would be 40!
Here's Donaji through the years:
When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain in 1493, he was thrown in jail for mistreating the native population of Hispaniola #MuseumFacts
Dating from 1493, this is oldest comic strip in the Netherlands! Found in the Archief Zutphen https://t.co/C5pBToB7Li
Punishment of the envious, 1493, Guy Marchant
from Stephen Ellcock fb's page