This work, painted for Philip III sent by the judge Juan del Barrio de Sepúlveda in 1599, represents the Aroba Francisco and his sons Peter and Domingo, chief of the Esmeraldas region of Ecuador, after “conversion, reduction, population and doctrine of the mulattos, Christians, infidels, and of war, the province of Esmeraldas “, submit to the authority of the Spanish Crown. The three characters, who usually only wore “blankets and shirts like other Indians,” have covered for the occasion “his black doublet and the Spanish coat. To send as a memorial to the King, dressed in the Spanish style” describes himself as judge, who also describes the motif based on “plain gold rings around the neck, and nose rings, earrings, labrets and rings in his beard and buttons on the nose”, typical of the indigenous world of their environment. The picture is completed with the iron-tipped spear as a reference to the African world. Europe, Africa and America are present in this work in which an indigenous painter, Andres Sanchez Gallque, Western pictorial language used to convey the king of Spain, the image of the submission to the Crown of a portion of the population known as “Maroons” , fleeing Spanish ships were wrecked on the Pacific coast, becoming chiefs of the indigenous population.

This work, painted for Philip III sent by the judge Juan del Barrio de Sepúlveda in 1599, represents the Aroba Francisco and his sons Peter and Domingo, chief of the Esmeraldas region of Ecuador, after “conversion, reduction, population and doctrine of the mulattos, Christians, infidels, and of war, the province of Esmeraldas “, submit to the authority of the Spanish Crown.

The three characters, who usually only wore “blankets and shirts like other Indians,” have covered for the occasion “his black doublet and the Spanish coat. To send as a memorial to the King, dressed in the Spanish style” describes himself as judge, who also describes the motif based on “plain gold rings around the neck, and nose rings, earrings, labrets and rings in his beard and buttons on the nose”, typical of the indigenous world of their environment. The picture is completed with the iron-tipped spear as a reference to the African world.

Europe, Africa and America are present in this work in which an indigenous painter, Andres Sanchez Gallque, Western pictorial language used to convey the king of Spain, the image of the submission to the Crown of a portion of the population known as “Maroons” , fleeing Spanish ships were wrecked on the Pacific coast, becoming chiefs of the indigenous population.

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