Allegory of America ca. 1587-89 Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish This drawing is preparatory for the first engraved plate in the series Nova Reperta, or New Inventions of Modern Times. The series was designed by the Medici court artist Johannes Stradanus (Giovanni Stradano), and is dedicated to the Florentine statesman, poet and scholar, Luigi Alamanni, with whom he often collaborated. Stradanus also created allegorical paintings, ephemera and cartography as Medici propaganda. Even though the Medici were not involved in the colonization of the Americas, and they themselves were subsumed under the sovereignty of Spain, Grand Duke Ferdinando sought to strengthen cultural and economic ties with the New World during his reign (1587-1609).The drawing shows the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci as he first encounters the Americas. Here, Vespucci carries a staff with a crucifix at its pinnacle and a banner of the Southern Cross. He also holds a brass mariner's astrolabe,

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Allegory of America ca. 1587-89 Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish This drawing is preparatory for the first engraved plate in the series Nova Reperta, or New Inventions of Modern Times. The series was designed by the Medici court artist Johannes Stradanus (Giovanni Stradano), and is dedicated to the Florentine statesman, poet and scholar, Luigi Alamanni, with whom he often collaborated. Stradanus also created allegorical paintings, ephemera and cartography as Medici propaganda. Even though the Medici were not involved in the colonization of the Americas, and they themselves were subsumed under the sovereignty of Spain, Grand Duke Ferdinando sought to strengthen cultural and economic ties with the New World during his reign (1587-1609).The drawing shows the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci as he first encounters the Americas. Here, Vespucci carries a staff with a crucifix at its pinnacle and a banner of the Southern Cross. He also holds a brass mariner's astrolabe,

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