Theodore De Bry's images for America

Abstract

Virtually no illustrated book, catalogue or article on f urnished illustrations, being accompanied by or the subject of the early history of America and its dis-accompanying the texts of these travel books, 1 of f ered covery can be f ound that resists including at least one a series of easily accessible images, documenting with ° f the engravings f rom Theodore De Bry's f amous great boldness and variety the view o f a then newly America anthology,' 'la piu celebre e imponente raccol-discovered -and today entirely lost -world.Given ta di relazioni di viaggio dell'epoca delle grande scop-this celebrity, it appears all the more strange that neier te geogra f iche', 2 published in f ourteen volumes at ther iconographic and pictorial sources of these prints, Frank f urt between 1590 and 1634.3 The reason f or this nor their impact on other artists, have ever been sys-Popularity is not di f f icult to understand: the lavishly tematically studied.5 While some in f ormation about My research was made possible thanks to a post-doctoral f ellow ship, granted by the K unsthistorisches Institut in Florence.The Endings of this article were first presented in a lecture given there in May iggy.I am indebted to Michael Cole for having improved my English text by revising and correcting it.

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