Tres pintores del siglo XVI intentar n comprender la violencia en Europa y el Nuevo Mundo. Tr ptico de la infamia relata las complejas relaciones entre el Viejo y el Nuevo Continente en los primeros a os de vida de Am rica, con el convulsionado siglo XVI como tel n de fondo. Tres pintores europeos narran la historia. Jacques Le Moyne, cart grafo y pintor de Diepa; Fran ois Dubois, pintor de Amiens, y Th odore de Bry, grabador de Lieja, se enfrentan por distintos caminos a la fascinaci n del mundo reci n descubierto, pero tambi n al exterminio y el despojo que, en nombre de la religi n, se llevan a cabo a ambos lados del Atl ntico. Son, cada uno a su manera, testigos, beneficiarios y v ctimas de las grandezas e iniquidades de su tiempo, y de ello dan cuenta con las herramientas de su oficio. Con una prosa de gran factura y una sorprendente capacidad para dar materialidad al relato, Pablo Montoya logra sumergir al lector en una poca de grandes cambios, pol micas y descubrimientos. Y recuerda, con testimonios asombrosos, los horrores de la Conquista y de las guerras religiosas que marcaron el destino de tantos hombres. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThree sixteenth-century painters try to understand the violence in Europe and the New World. Triptych of Infamy is a portrait of the complex relations between the old and new worlds during the early colonization of the Americas. Three European artists narrate this novel: Jacques Le Moyne, a cartographer and painter from Dieppe; Fran ois Dubois, a painter from Amiens; and Th odore de Bry, an engraver from Li ge. Each takes a different approach to the conquest of the Americas and the killing and devastation wrought in the name of religion on both sides of the Atlantic. They are witnesses, beneficiaries and victims of the glories and inequities of the times, and depict these contradictions in their art. With weighty prose and an astounding ability to bring his material to life, Pablo Montoya immerses the reader in an era of great change, polemics and discoveries. The surprising stories told in this novel are a vivid account of the conquests and religious wars that shaped the destinies of so many human beings.
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