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1616 ~ Don Quixote’s Conquest

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Exhibited at the Rijksmuseum after an honorable mention in the Google Gemini Art RemixCompetition, 1616 returns to a moment in European history when the myth makers of their time passed and the hidden prophecies in their stories manifest in the world. The second panel casts Don Quixote against the widening shadow of empire. In the final hours of Miguel de Cervantes, as the aging writer reflects upon the strange life of the figure who defined his legacy ~ Don Quixote. Quixote believed himself the guardian of a moral order shaped by chivalry, honor, and devotion ~ yet the Spain through which he traveled had already entered another age. While Quixote rode in search of noble battles, Spain itself was engaged in the ruthless expansion of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Across the Atlantic, ambition was the only moral, and it drove conquest to the edge of the world. By Laurence Fuller @laurencefuller www.laurencefuller.art/1616

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