The word ‘meeting’ comes from the same Latin root as ‘clash.’ Considering violence as something both unexpected and impetuous, what occurs after Columbus’ arrival in the land of corn can be referred to as a ‘collision’ of two forms of culture. The gaze of the other, from ships or from land, denotes particular characteristics in its discourse that create imaginable alterities. The theme of this article takes into account different representations of the encounter between Atahualpa and Pizarro, which took place in the Andes in the Sixteenth century. It examines three circumstances that make reference to: two front page reports published in Spain two years after the encounter, the oil painting titled “Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru” painted by John Evert Millais in 1846 in London, and scenes from the feature length film “The Royal Hunt of the Sun”, created by Irving Lerner in 1969.