Il mode che tengono gli orefici nel lauorare, & fondere l’oro, & l’argento. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Il mode che tengono gli orefici nel lauorare, & fondere l’oro, & l’argento.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Peru; South America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy
Description: Three Indigenous people in Peru engage in metalworking with gold and silver. Two people use long tubes or hollow reeds to blow air onto a fire to melt the metal. Another person to the right sits on the ground and pounds the heated metal with a rock to shape it. A child stands nearby. In the background is a large stone structure.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23693
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1572 Benzoni; 1572 Benzoni
Image: mta_23693_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples - South America; Indigenous peoples – Peru; Incas; Metalwork; Smelting; Silver; Gold