The Conception of Christopher Columbus' Dream
|Oil on canvas, 1991
||60cm x 75cm (24" x 30")
Artist's Interpretation (Informal):
- The egg represents the
conception of Columbus' idea to find a short sea route to the Indies (Columbus was not trying to
"prove the world was round"... thinking people already knew the world was round).
- The three birds represent the
three sailing ships that Columbus used during his first voyage
in 1492 to the New World: the Santa María, the Niña, and the Pinta.
- The cypress is representative
of the trees used for the masts of Columbus' three sailing ships.
- The rose represents religion
that would be brought to the New World.
- The dark cave to the left represents the Old World.
- The figure of the Indian in the mountains to the right represents
the native Arawak Indians that Columbus encountered upon landing in the New World.
- The shadow of the eagle (on the ground above the running figure)
represents the Great Bald Eagle that would one day represent the United States of America.
- The shape of a goose (upper-left cloud) represents the Canadian Geese that would one day represent
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- See glossary: Rose
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