Commons:Vasamuseet/Image search

An attempt to have the community help search for images for the exhibition, but it didn't work out at all. Saving it here anyway.

Keywords

Below is a list of countries, places, people and keywords the exhibition will focus around. Feel free to add images and links to images corresponding to the places and words in the section below to give the curators a good sample to select from. The list is translated from swedish to english by me, so feel free to correct errors or mistakes I might have done.

w:en:Georgia (Country)

Places: Kartli, Kakheti, Imereti, Samegrelo, Guria, Apkhazia, Meskheti, Tbilisi.
Keywords: ”the Bloody rainfalls”, war, printing of Georgian books, georgian alfabeth, first school, every day-life, persian cats, letters.
People: King Teimuraz I, Nicoforo Irbachi (Irubakidze-Cholokashvili), Juseppe Judichi, Don Christoforo De Castelli, Pietro della Valle & Maiuccia (Tinatin de Ziba).

w:en:India

Places: Agra, Kabul, Patna, Delhi, Bay of Bengal, Malabar, Surat, Madras (Chennai today), Masulipatam, Ceylon, Fatehpur Sikri, Shahjanabad, Red fort of Rajastan, Varanasi (Gagnes).
Keywords: timurides, ”Rakar ray”, agriculture, zamindardes, sati (practice), purdah , Taj Mahal, armies, trade, British East India Company, Dutch East India Company, coffie, refined sugar.
People: Akhbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-27), Shah Jahan (1627-58), emir, mansasbdar, Sufis, Shah Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal.

w:en:Iceland

Places: Jarngerdarstadirsund, Reykjaströnd, Vestmannaejar, Laugardal, Alger (Northern Africa), Copenhagen (Denmark), Grindavik.
Keywords: christianity, Turkish Abductions, volcanic eruption, earthquake, hard winters, bad harvest, ships of Northern Africa, violence, fires, Danish trade ships.
People: danish king Christian IV, corsair, white slaves, muslims, danish merchant, Bjorn Jónsson of Skardsa, the priest Ólafr Egilsson and his wife Ásta Thorsteinsdóttir.

w:en:Japan

Places: Edo, Osaka, Kyoto, Dejima.
Keywords: Tokugawa clan, new confucianism, ris cultivation, haiku Basho, Tea ceremony, kabuki, agriculture, silk manufacturing, warfare, trade, Ukiyo-e,
People: Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, portugese merchant, interpreter, samurai, farmers, artisan, merchant, silk weavers, daimyos, wives, concubines and children, servants and kago bearer, rōnin, geisha.

w:en:Canada

Places: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and northern New Brunswick, the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, Quebec.
Keywords: hunting caribou, walrus, whale, seal, moose, farming, longhouses, potlatch, trade, iron pots and kettles, furs, weapons, smallpox.
People: Inuit, Algonquin and Athapaskan peoples, Mi’kmaq, Iroquoian people, Hurons, : the Salish, the Tsimshian, the Haida, the Tagish, the Kwakiutl, and the Tlinglit, Samuel de Champlain.

w:en:China

Places: Yangtse river, Beijing, Jingdezhen ware, (Mingbuildings in the) Forbidden city.
Keywords: Ming, Qing, agriculture, sweet potatoes, sorghum, confucianism, calligraphy, Ming-porcelain, great wall, riot (1629-1644), mandate of heaven, cultivation of rice, Manchu hairbraid.
People: Emperor Wanli (1573-1619), Taichang (1620), Tianqi (1620-1627), Chongzhen (1628-1644), Shunzhi (1644-1661), concubine, Wu Bin (1568-1626), Wei Zhongxian (1568-1627), eunuch, Manchu, Matteo Ricci.

w:en:Mexico (w:en:New Spain)

Places: Carribean, Central America and southern parts of North America, also the Philippines and other east asian colonies, Presidio San Gregorio de Cerralvo in Nueva Leon (in the north east part of Mexico), mines in Zacatecas and Chihuahua, Mexico City, Puebla.
Keywords: ”Real y Supremo Consejo de Indias”, audiencia, consulado, catholic church, presidios, missions, hacienda, mines, silver, woolen fabric, obrajes, ”Our lady of Guadalupe”, inquisition, spanish baroqe (architecture), university Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.
People: preasts, merchant, aztec, jesuitas, peninsulares, creoles, mestiser, Fray Diego Rodriguez (1569-1668), Chistobal Villalpando.

w:en:Ottoman Empire

Places: All of Middle east, Northern Africa and parts of eastern Europe (Bosnia, Albania, Caucasus) och northeastern Europe (Hungary), Mecca och Medina, Constantinople (Kostantiniyye), Aleppo, Blue Mosque, Bagdad.
Keywords: the golden horn, the divan of the sultan, Topkapi, Ottoman porte, islam, christianity, judaism, miletus, slavery, harem, agriculture, Jelali revolts, goldsmith, metallurgy, anatolian rugs, calligraphy, muraqqa, tobacco, drinking of coffie, Thirty Years' War, Levant trade.
People: The Sultan, The Grand Viziers, Valide Sultan, Kösem Valide Sultan, Ahmed I, Murad IV, Ibrahim I, Mehmed IV, Janitsjarer, saffavides.

w:en:Russia

Places: Moscow, the regiones around River Don and Dniepr, Ukraine, Archangelsk, monestary, Kreml in Moscow, churches with symmetrical domes i Yaroslavl, Nativity Church at Putinki, Kazan Cathedral in Moscow.
Keywords: ”Time of Troubles”, Krim khanatet, zemsky sobor, Monomakh's Cap, prikazy, war, countryside, cities, agriculture, Sobornoye Ulozheniye, small wooden houses, the Moscow riot, christian orthodox church, Kremlin, painting of icons.
People: Dimitrij I, Dimitrij II, tsar Mikael Romanov (1613-1645), bojarer, voivoder, streltsi, cossacks, serf farmers, gouvernment farmers, patriarch Fileratos of Moscow, the white priests, the black priests, pariarch Nikon.

w:en:Spain

Places: Aragonia and Castilia, Sicilia, kingdom of Neaples, Spanish Netherlands, smaller principalities in central Europe, colonial territories in America and Eastern Asia, Portugal, Madrid, Sevilla, Cadiz, Antwerp, university in Salamanca, cathedral in Valladolid.
Keywords: Cortes, junta, catholic church, Peter's pence, inquisition, Sovereign default, Thirty Years' War, battle of Nördlingen, pirates, colonial trade, British East India Company, Dutch East India Company, spanish silver fleet, wool production, cultivation of grain, don Quixote, Habsburg Monarchy.
People: The spanish Habsburgs, valido, grandes, Filip III, count of Lerma, Philip IV, count Olivares, dutch admiral Piet Heins, moriskor, Cervantes, warriors, administrators, Lope de Vega, el Greco, Velasquez, Morillo, de Zurbaran.

w:en:Sweden

Places: Stockholm, Stora och Lilla Konungsgatan in Stockholm (“Greater and Lesser King Streets” – today known as Stora Nygatan och Lilla Nygatan, ”New Street”), Skeppsbron in Stockholm, Skeppsgården in Stockholm.
Keywords: warfare, weather turned colder (Little Ice Age), failed harvests, starvation, disease, outbreaks of plague, a bruk – a mining and smelting/manufacturing enterprise, the Vasa ship, small wooden houses with turf roofs.
People: Gustavus Adolphus, Axel Oxenstierna, farmers, townspeople, yeomen-miners, soldiers, women farmers, country folk, Henrik Hybertsson.

w:en:South Korea

Places: Seoul, Cheju, Cholla-do, Chongju in Pyongan-do Province.
Keywords: The Chosôn Dynasty, confucianism, Choson wangjo sillok, agriculture, astrolabium, war, meteorites, comets, abnormal sun andmoon, haloeffect on the sun and moon, thunder and lightning, hail, snow at the wrong season, heavy rainfall, violante storms, heavy snowfall, coloured rainor snow, duststorms, earthquake, tsunami, gaekseong or "guest stars", ship Hollandia, ship Sperwer, ”Hamel's Journal and a Description of the Kingdom of Korea, 1653-1666”.
People: Jan Janse Weltevree (Pak Yon), Heindreik Hamel, The head regent of Yosan-ku (1605).

w:en:Italy

Places: Italian peninsula, Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, Milan, House of Savoy, Republic of Genoa, Republic of Venice, Papal states, Tuscany, Po-valley, Urbino, Castro, Bologna, Savoy, Padua, Pisa, Ferrara, Rome.
Keywords: cereal crops, sheep farming, wine production, production of olive oil, villages with a church, cities and markets, troops of the thirty year's war, plague, fabric industries, coins, Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynx-Eyed), baroque churches, St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Basilica, Sant 'Ivo alla Sapienza, statue of David by Bernini, painting The Taking of Christ by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Baroque art
People: Pope, merchants, bankers, nobles, the Duke of Parma, House of Medici (Tuscany), family Borghese, Paul V, Alexander VII, Pope Gregory XV, family Barberini, Urban VII, the Medici, Leo XI, the Spanish court of Alexander VII, Giovanno Cassini, Galileo Galilei, Evangelista Torricelli, Grand Duke Ferdinando I of Tuscany, Tomaso Campanella, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Boromini, Claudio Monteverdi, Artemisia Gentileschi, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

w:en:France

Places: La Rochelle, Montpellier, Paris, Nantes, Colonies in Canada: Port Royal in Acadia (now Nova Scotia), Montreal; Colonies in the Caribbean: St Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St Lucia
Keywords: Morus (plant), navy, the Franco-Spanish wars of 1635-1659, sling (used in Paris to smash the windows of the houses on Mazarin's supporters), industries, colonial possessions, the Académie Française.
People: farmers, Huguenots, Henry IV, Duke of Sully, bourgeois Barthélémy the Laffemas, Noblesse d'épée (nobility of the sword), Noblesse de robe (nobility of the robe), Louis XIII, Maria de Medici, Cardinal Richelieu, Gaston de Orleans, Cardinal Mazarin, Prince de Conde, Laffemas, Salomon de Brosse, the Palais de Luxembourg, François Mansart, Pierre Corneille, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Moliere, Nicoal Poussin, Georges de la Tours.

w:en:West Africa

Places: Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Pepper Coast, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Slave Coast, Elmina Castle, the fort Carolusborg (Cape Coast Castle) in Cabo Corso (in present Ghana), Songhai (in present Mali), Bornu, Hausa, Dahomey (Benin ), Oyo (Yoruba), Allada, Ouidah, Cape Coast, Anemabo, Accra, Axim.
Keywords: gold, ivory, slavery / slave market, trading posts, the Swedish Africa Company, Akan kingdoms, Open-pit mining (gold mining), European household objects (fabrics, glass beads, fish hooks, Kitchen utensils as copper pans and knives, iron rods), stone and rock formations, divine spider Anansi, firearms, ceramics, wood carvings, bronze casting, gold weights in the form of humans and crocodiles.
People: fishermen, farmers, hunters, gold producers, slaves, Ashanti, warriors, craftsmen who build, workers who load and unload ships, carriers that move goods between markets.

w:en:Latin America

Places: Mexico, the Incas of Peru, Potosi in Peru (today's Bolivia), La Plata region (in today's Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina).
Keywords: silver mine, porcelain, silk, plants (potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peppers), horses, sheep, cattle, smallpox and measles, sugar, tobacco, coffee, cotton.
People: slaves from Africa, Indians, Jesuits.

w:en:Oceania

Places: Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Taiwan, Trobriand islands, Yap, Tongatapu, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji.
Keywords: Outrigger canoe, ritual, rai stones- limestone circles from Yap, Tonga Empire, villages, body painting and tattoos, crafts, cannibalism.
People: Ferdinand Magellan, Abel Tasman, chiefs, Aborigines.