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Folding Screen Portraying the Conquest of Mexico and a View of Mexico City
Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City
Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City
Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City
Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City
Folding screen portraying the conquest of Mexico and a view of Mexico City


Anonymous Oil on Canvas
New Spain
Late seventeenth century
213 x 550 cm

This large folding screen depicts the bloody conquest of Mexico by Spain on one side. The other side depicts Mexico City in the late 1600s. Screens like this adorned the elegant parlors of wealthy Mexicans of Spanish descent. This elaborate scene represented the birth of their new county.

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