Visual Sources: Llama and pineapple illustrations

European Exploration, Perception of the Other, and the Columbian Exchange

How did the Columbian exchange link worlds?

The image of a llama is found in The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes and Serpents and Insects published in 1658 and the image of the pineapple comes from La historia general de las Indias published in 1535.

. Why are artists drawing llamas and pineapples?

They would hold still unlike the people so that they could be drawn accurately.

To show readers the new products and animals in the New World.

They were prized possessions in America so artists drew them everywhere.

. What does it suggest about European interests?

They were intrigued by exotic products and strange foods.

They did not want to see real daily life, only the mythological and strange.

They did not want to see images of the people of these new lands.

Visual Sources: Llama and pineapple illustrations

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