COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04362
Record number:
04362-17
JCB call number:
JA675 T167s / 1-SIZE
Image title:
P. Franciscus Pintus Soc: Iesu, odio fidei Christianae à Brasilis crudeliter occisus. A. 1608. 11 Ianuarij, Ibiapanae
Creator 1:
Karel Skréta
Creator 1 dates:
ca. 1610-1674
Creator 1 role:
d[elineavit].
Creator 2:
Melchoir Küsel
Creator 2 dates:
1626-1683
Creator 2 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[Prague]
Image publisher:
[Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae]
Image date:
[1675]
Image function:
illustration; p. 460
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
10.7 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
29.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
17.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Martyr, priest, or monk lies on the ground under a cross made of tree trunks lashed together. On the ground beside him lies a crucifix. Two natives tighten a cord around his neck and another stands above the body with an ax. Includes dwellings.
Source creator:
Tanner, Mathias, 1630-1692
Source Title:
Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans in Europea, Africa, Asia, et America
Source place of publication:
Pragae [Prague]
Source publisher:
Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem per Joannem Nicolaum Hampel Factorem
Source date:
M. DC. LXXV. [1675]
notes:
Text discusses the martyrdom of Francisco Pinto, who was garroted on his way to Maranhão in the Ibiapaba mountains. Pinto had become fluent in the language of the Tupi Indians he proselytized, and presented himself to the natives as a shaman, able to conjure rain.The author, Mathias Tanner from Pilsen, Bohemia, entered the Society of Jesus in 1646, spent most of his life in Prague, and became rector of the Colegio and Imperial University.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1873.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Christian martyrs--Brazil
Subject headings:
Jesuits--Brazil
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil
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