Don Lvis de Velasco, Cauallero del Auito de Santiago, el Otabo Bizorrey · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Lvis de Velasco, Cauallero del Auito de Santiago, el Otabo Bizorrey
Subject: Don Luis de Velasco; Viceroys; Government; Conquest; Colonialism
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Lima; West Indies; South America
Description: This image depicts a standing portrait of the eighth Spanish viceroy of Peru, Don Luis de Velasco. He is illustrated wearing glasses and traditional European/Castilian clothing as he holds the hilt of his sword with his left hand. The caption by the viceroy’s feet identifies the location as it reads, “en lima” [in Lima]. The large caption at the bottom of the image reads, “don luys de uelasco gouerno desde ueynte de junio de mil y q[uini]entos y nouenta y seys hasta fin del ano de mil y seyciento[s y cu]atro en tienpo del rrey felipo segu[n]do” [Don Luis de Velasco governed from June 1556 to the end of the year 1604 at the time of King Philip II].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:22964
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_22964_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Don Luis de Velasco; Viceroys; Government; Conquest; Colonialism