5009B

Virtue mourning the death of Emperor Charles V

Artist: Unidentified Novohispanic Artist
Title: Virtue mourning the death of Emperor Charles V
Date: 1559
Medium: Unidentified medium. Illustration on the ephemeral monument built by Claudio de Arziniega (1526-1592/3) in 1559 to mourn the death of Charles V of Spain.
Location: The ephemeral monument bearing this illustration was originally built in the patio of the Capilla de San Juan de los Naturales, Convento de San Francisco, Ciudad de México. Today it survives only in the description on folio 5v of Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (ca. 1514 – ca. 1575) Túmulo imperial de la gran ciudad de Mexico [a las obsequias del invictissimo Cesar Carlos quinto]. México: Antonio de Espinoza (ca. 1530-1576), 1560, and which we reproduce above.
Photo Source: Google Books
Correspondence Credit: Francisco Cervantes de Salazar op. cit., Santiago Sebastián 1992, 139-142, and Almerindo Ojeda.
Note: 5009A was the first of several versions of the pictura described in 5009B. Any one of these versions could have served as the source of the pictura described in 5009B. Or could have so served if it was published by 1559, the year the túmulo imperial was completed. The correspondence between 5009A and 5009B is therefore indirect if not direct.
Item: 5009B