Royal portraits. Image of King Philip II on horseback, by Pedro Pablo Rubens.
Royal portraits. Image of King Philip II on horseback, by Pedro Pablo Rubens.
New Spain fleet leaving Veracruz for Cadiz.
Maps and plans. The image depicts a portulan chart covering the Mediterranean and the European Atlantic.
Image of the Contracting House, the institution in charge of managing trade affairs with the New World during the Modern Age
Representation of 16th-century Seville from the west side of the Guadalquivir River
Mainland Galleons of the Carrera de Indias
Image of a five-panelled folding screen depicting the Palace of the Viceroys in Mexico before it burned down in the turmoil of 1692.
Photograph of the work by Antonio Gisbert Pérez, entitled “Execution of the Comuneros de Castilla”, depicting the execution of some of the Comuneros in 1521
A group of peasants engaged in rural activities in early modern Europe
Image representing the retinue formed by the emperor Montezuma and his nobles, organised to meet Hernán Cortés and receive him on his entry into the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlán.