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Fernão de Magalhães

(Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521)

Portrait of the Portuguese soldier and navigator Fernando de Magallanes (1480-1521). This portrait is a cut-out variant of the copy that is kept in the Naval Museum of Madrid; the original, according to Vargas Ponce, was in 1787 in the house of the canon of the cathedral of Toledo Felipe Vallejo; it was from that painting that Fernando Selma took the engraving that appears in the Relationship of the last trip to Magellan (Madrid, 1788). The origin of these three works is possibly in a 16th-century painting that existed in the gallery of the Duke of Florence, attributed to the school of Ángel Broncino.
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Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing his fleet to pass from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean and perform the first European navigation to Asia via the Pacific. Magellan was killed in battle in the Philippines and his crew, commanded by the Spanish Juan Sebastián Elcano, completed the return trip to Spain in 1522 achieving the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. (From Wikipedia)

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