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Painting of a red-clad explorer raising a flag on a rocky shore as a friar with a cross faces Indigenous people near ships.

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Primer desembarco de Cristóbal Colón en América, Dióscoro Puebla (1862), Museo del Prado. Via artnap.com

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This large history painting, catalogued as Primer desembarco de Cristóbal Colón en América by Dióscoro Puebla, dates to 1862 and is held by the Museo del Prado. It shows a richly dressed explorer in red raising a banner on a rocky shore while a friar holding a cross gestures toward a group of Indigenous people beneath broad-leaved trees, with ships visible on the sea behind.

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