Word: conquista
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Surprisingly, Spanish art was poor in its American imagery-probably, Honour suggests, because of guilt at the genocidal cruelty of the conquista. Yet the Spanish massacres in South America and Mexico did give a Dutchman one poignant vision of the ruin of Arcadia, which is also the earliest known painting of the New World: Jan Mostaert's West Indian Scene, circa 1542, with its naked Indian tribe defending their pastoral paradise against a phalanx of armored Spaniards...