Didacus Almagrus wird von dem Ferdinando Pizarro in gefängnuß geworffen, darinnen strangulirt, und endtlich offentlich enthauptet. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Didacus Almagrus wird von dem Ferdinando Pizarro in gefängnuß geworffen, darinnen strangulirt, und endtlich offentlich enthauptet.
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Peru; Spaniards; Colonists; Executions and executioners; Imprisonment; Public executions
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cuzco; Peru; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: This storied image shows the imprisonment and execution of Diego de Almagro in Cuzco, at the hands of Spaniards loyal to Francisco Pizarro. In the foreground, Diego de Almagro is seized by three Spanish soldiers. He is escorted towards a building used as a prison on the right. Inside the prison, de Almagro is strangled using a rope tied to a wooden pole while three Spanish soldiers watch. His body is then carried to the left into the public square, where he is tied to a post and beheaded with a hatchet in front of an audience. Three Inca men watch the proceedings from the background. This image is identical to one found on page 14 (137) of Frankfurt, 1596.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23852
Language: ger
Source Name: Das sechste Theil der neuwen Welt. oder Der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt, Das Dritte Buch. Darinnen warhafftig erzehlet wird, wie die Spanier die Goldreiche Landschafften deß Peruanischen Königreichs eyngenommen, den König Atabalibam gefangen und getödtet. Auch wie sie, entlich sich selbst untereinander auffgerieben haben.
Parent Collection: 1597 Frankfurt
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