In 1571, a Habsburg wedding was celebrated in Vienna which included personifications of the four continents, one of which was the “King of America.” Among the artists involved in designing and planning the celebrations were Giuseppe Arcimboldo and a circle of humanist thinkers including Giovanni Battista Fonteo and Jacopo Strada. An investigation of drawings related to the festivities now spread across collections in Austria, Italy, Germany and Sweden will shed more light on the perception of Indigenous peoples in Vienna during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and from what main sources Viennese-based artists were building their understandings of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.