The pictorial representation of the Timucuas Indians in Jacques Le Moyne and Theodore de Bry

Abstract

From the point of view of the European aesthetics in the sixteenth-century, the pictorial dialogue established between Jacques Le Moyne and Theodore de Bry is of great importance for the history of the representation of the indigenous peoples. Based on Colombian academic settings, this article offers an introduction to the interpretation of some images that are necessary to understand how the indigenous people stopped being, in the European imagination, a monster to become a sort of noble savage. The engravings of Le Moyne and De Bry about the Timucua’s people have contributed, in their own way, to the understanding of American indigenous.