Lienzo de Tlaxcala

The Lienzo de Tlaxcala is a Tlaxcalan colonial document produced in the mid-sixteenth century at the request of the Tlaxcalan city council. Measuring 4.8m high and 2m wide, the pictorial document depicts the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire between 1519 and 1521 across 87 scenes and emphasises the Tlaxcalan contribution to it.

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