Don Francisco Pizaro Le Mato a Don Diego de Almagro, el Biejo Capitan y Conquistador · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Francisco Pizaro Le Mato a Don Diego de Almagro, el Biejo Capitan y Conquistador
Subject: Conquistadors; Conquest; Spaniards; Inca Empire; Don Francisco Pizarro; Don Diego Almagro
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Lima
Description: This chapter focuses on discussing the arrival of Spaniards and the Spanish conquest of Peru. This image depicts the murder of Don Francisco Pizarro, a leading conquistador in the conquest of Peru and the Inca Empire. He is being stabbed in the chest by another leading conquistador, Don Diego de Almagro. Almagro is depicted wearing a suit of armour and holding the flag of Castile as he stabs Pizarro for contradicting him. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, en Lima [In Lima].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:22131
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_22131_OBJ.jpg