Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
The Tupinambá’s Treatment of Prisoners of War
Also titled De behandeling van krijgsgevangenen door de Tupinamba
c. 1630
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 10 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In the 17th century, Europeans were enthralled by the original inhabitants of South America. Their (reputed) cannibalism spoke to the imagination. This painting was in the possession of the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam. Much of the scene is fantasized and says more about the Western perspective of the New World than the actual life of the Tupinambá people.
