I was very impressed with your contributions to class today! Great job! Let's continue having good discussions during our lecture time.
Remember to read Columbus's letter about the New World. That will be our starting point on Tuesday.
Also check this out!
We can learn a lot from art if we take a moment to analyze it. Look at this famous painting of Christopher Columbus arriving in the New World. What can we learn from it?
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| American neoclassicist painter John Vanderlyn (1775–1852) was commissioned by Congress in June 1836 to paint the Landing of Columbus for the Capitol Rotunda. |
Think about these questions.
What does this painting tell you about the arrival of Columbus? Look at the details. What are the men holding? How are they standing? What are they looking at? What do you see in the background and foreground?
It is a painting done almost 350 years after Columbus landed in the New World, but it does say a lot about the period and how people in the 1830s might have remembered Columbus.
Take a look. What do you see?
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