Diferencias iconológicas entre los indígenas de América conforme a las leyes de Burgos

Résumé

The American iconography of the early decades of colonization continues to offer surprising facts that require us to ask ourselves again and again both the form of conquest of America and its impact on the European visual world. Editions of the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci as well as engravings printed in loose-leaf allow us to see that the Burgos’s laws intended to order the experience with the indigenous world and redirect it for better purposes; as a result of this new interpretation of the relations with the Indian is the creation of an imaginary to the art of printmaking as a means of propaganda. But it is also true that at a very early date, this same visual imagery raised serious differences between the Castilla’s America and Portuguese America. Consider these disparities and the reasons for them is the aim of this communication.