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The experts characterised the painting as an outstanding masterpiece referred to as among the best lots in the auction. Specifically, Joanna Vickery, director of the Russian section at Sotheby's, said: "The Wrath Of The Seas deserves special attention: the painter did a great job depicting the outrage of nature with so much emotion and expression".
Lope de Aguirre (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlope ðe aˈɣire]; 8 November 1510 – 27 October 1561) was a Basque Spanish [1] conquistador who was active in South America. Nicknamed El Loco ("the Madman"), he styled himself "Wrath of God."
Rodríguez Freyle, Juan; Achury Valenzuela, Darío (1979) [1859 (1638)], El Carnero – Conquista i descubrimiento del nuevo reino de Granada de las Indias Occidentales del mar oceano, i fundacion de la ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogota (PDF) (in Spanish), Fundacion Biblioteca Ayacuch, pp. 1– 598
A short time later, Juan de la Cosa, another Spanish explorer, landed on what is today called Cabo de la Vela (Cape of Sails) in the Guajira Peninsula. [7] In 1502, on another coast of present-day Colombia, near the Gulf of Urabá, Spanish explorers led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa explored and conquered the area near the Atrato River.
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (Colombia, 1536–1539, Venezuela, 1569–1572) Pedro Fernández de Lugo (Canary Island, Colombia 1509–1536) Pedro de Candia (Panama, 1527, Colombia and Ecuador, 1528, Peru, 1530) Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (United States, 1540–1542) Juan de Oñate (New Mexico, United States, 1598–1608) Juan Roque (Zape ...
The painting depicts a chapter of the War of the Pacific, where Chilean Major Juan de la Cruz Salvo arrived to Francisco Bolognesi's barracks in Arica, then part of Peru, to discuss the Peruvian group's surrender. Bolognesi replied to the request by saying "I have sacred dutes to fulfill, and I will carry them out until the last cartridge has ...
Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory, Circle of Diego Quispe Tito, 17th century, collection of the Brooklyn Museum The Cusco school (escuela cuzqueña) or Cuzco school, was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition based in Cusco, Peru (the former capital of the Inca Empire) during the Colonial period, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
Juan del Junco was named by several early chroniclers of the Spanish conquest of Colombia: Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada (first published in 1889); [1] Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (De Castellanos, 1589); [2] El Carnero (Freyle, 1638); [3] and Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reino de Granada (De ...