Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America

Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America

SK-A-5021

Habsburg emperor Charles V reigned over a realm on which ‘the sun never set’. It encompassed much of Europe, including Spain and the Low Countries, parts of Central America and the Caribbean. This is the first painting to depict Spanish soldiers subduing the people who lived there. Mostaert added some elements to give his traditional European landscape an exotic ambience: a monkey, a porcupine and parrots.

Peter Mason, El drago en el Jardín del Edén. Las Islas Canarias en la circulación transatlántica de imágenes en el mundo ibérico, siglos XVI y XVII, Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, Madrid 2018, pp. 31-50.

c. 1535

olieverf op paneel

86.5 cm x 152.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the Mondriaan Fonds and the Nationaal Aankoopfonds van het Ministerie van OCenW, VSBfonds, Fonds 21 and the Goudstikker Family (in memory of Jacques Goudstikker)

Public domain

• Peter Mason, El drago en el Jardín del Edén. Las Islas Canarias en la circulación transatlántica de imágenes en el mundo ibérico, siglos XVI y XVII, Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, Madrid 2018, pp. 31-50.
• H.G. Franz, Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus, Graz 1969, p. 54.
• C.D. Cuttler, 'Errata in Netherlandish Art: Jan Mostaert’s ‘New World’ Landscape', Simiolus 19 (1989), p. 191-197, fig. 1.
• James Snyder, 'Jan Mostaert's West Indies Landscape', in F. Chiappelli ed., First Images of America: The impact of the New World on the Old, 2 vols., Berkely 1976, vol. 1, p. 495-502, figs. 62-65.
• E.K.J. Reznicek, 'Episode uit de verovering van Amerika', Openbaar Kunstbezit 4 (1960), nr. 19.
• M.E.R.G.N. Jansen, ‘Defendiendo la Montaña Sagrada. La pintura ‘Indias Occidentales’ de Jan Mostaert y la Conquista de Gran Canaria’, Indiana 35.2 (2018), pp. 243-267.
• H. van de Waal, Drie eeuwen vaderlandsche geschieduitbeelding, 1500-1800: een iconologische studie, Den Haag 1952, p. 36.
• M.J. Friedländer, Von van Eyck bis Bruegel: Studien zur Geschichte der niederländischen Malerei, Berlin 1921, p. 415.
• Hessel Miedema (ed.), Karel van Mander. The Lives of the Illustrious Netherlandish and German Painters, 6 vols., Doornspijk 1994-1999, vol. 1 (1994), p. 174-177, vol. 3 (1996), p. 200.
• E. Michel, 'Un tableau Colonial de Jan Mostaert', Revue Belge d’Archéologie et de l’Histoire de l’Art (1931), p. 133-141, 228.
• Leonard Blussé, “Een re-interpretatie van Jan Jansz Mostaerts Landschap met een episode uit de verovering van Amerika”, Kunstschrift 3 (2016), pp. 54-55.
• O. Kurz, 'Review of Van Luttervelt 1948-1949. Recent Research', Burlington Magazine 92 (1950), p. 239.
• Peter Mason, ‘Una delle prime immagini della conquista dell’America riesaminata’ in: Il Mito del Nemico. Identità, alterità e loro rappresentazioni, a cura di Irene Graziani e Maria Vittoria Spissu, Minerva Edizioni, Bologna 2019, pp. 315-324.
• N. Köhler (ed.), Painting in Haarlem 1500-1850 The Collection of the Frans Hals Museum, coll. cat. Haarlem (Frans Hals Museum) 2006, p. 559-561.
• R. van Luttervelt, 'Jan Mostaerts West-Indisch landschap', Nederlandsch Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 2 (1948-49), p. 105-117.
• James Snyder, revised by Larry Silver and Henry Luttikhuizen, Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 2005, p. 417-420, afb. fig. 17.11.
• John H. Perry, “Depicting a New World”, in: The Early Illustrated Book: Essays in Honor of Lessing J. Rosenwald, ed. S. Hindman, Washington D.C. 1982, p. 144.

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