The first European renditions of Native Americans, made shortly after Christopher Columbus returned from a first trip to the Americas, may have been discovered under layers of dust on a neglected fresco at the Vatican.
Preservationists working on a Renaissance fresco in the Vatican have uncovered what experts believe is the first European representation of Native Americans, from 1494.
Writing in the Vatican’s semi-official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, the director of the Vatican Museum, Antonio Paolucci, said the previously unnoticed detail was discovered in a Resurrection scene painted by the Renaissance master Pinturicchio.
Covered by centuries of soot, the restoration of the painting revealed a small depiction of naked men with feathered headdresses who appear to be dancing. A man on horseback is also visible.
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Awesome picture but his depiction of the Natives is freaky—they are ghost like. Could he have had a premonition of what was to come for them?
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The history our children are taught in schools also has a bias
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Reblogged this on Nature Dreamer and commented:
Very interesting!
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Its amazing that we are still discovering things like this! Wow, thanks for the great post!
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Judging from the face in the foreground, could this have been Custer’s FIRST stand?
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Many movies have presented the early native Americans in similar ways …
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It could be war paint, do you think? White clay smeared all over perhaps?
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well … I guess lipstick wasn’t invented yet.
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😆 Thanks to you Jimbo, I’m not going to be able to keep a straight face now when I try and put makeup on in future. I can just picture the lipstick going everywhere.
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In reality Mon, I think they used stuff like red berries.
They had to use their imagination in those days.
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