Resumen de Sobre indios, moriscos y cristianos "a su manera": Testimonios pictóricos en el "Trachtenbuch" de Christoph Weiditz
Iconographic depictions of humans in early modem Europe are not to be seen as efforts of natural representation but rather have to be understood within the complex socio-cultural context surrounding them. This is especially true for representations of exotic peoples, where images played a significant role in European perception.
In this article, we study the pictorial series in Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch.
Weiditz was the first German, and perhaps European, to draw Indians using live models, brought to Europe by Hernán Cortés; his illustrations are a captivating testimony of authenticity. We also focus on his series on Spanish ethnic and social groups, which contrast and complement the accounts given by German travellers, such as John Lange or Hieronymus Münzer.
