In the XVII century the canvasses of Dutchman Albert Eckhout, on the Tupis and Tapuias, abandon the Renaissance canons of idealized beauty for a more descriptive and naturalist image of the indian. This type of image would become triumphant and was followed by the travelers of the XVII-XIX centuries. Nevertheless, even though these "ethnographic" images present changes with relation to the schemes used in the Renaissance, they will not be more "objective" than the previous ones from the XVI century, showing similar limitations in the representation of the "real" indian using schemes conventioned one century before.
Albert Eckhout; Dutch Brazil; Renaissance
