Conquista española; conquista de América; América; sacrificio; españoles; - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 14:57:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Conquista española; conquista de América; América; sacrificio; españoles; - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Conquest of Mexico: Sacrifice of the Spaniards https://historylab.es/conquest-of-mexico-sacrifice-of-the-spaniards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conquest-of-mexico-sacrifice-of-the-spaniards Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:32 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/conquista-de-mexico-sacrificio-de-los-espanoles/ Scenes of the Conquest of America in Mexico in the 16th Century

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]]> In the upper part of this scene painted by Juan and Miguel González, together with 23 others and destined for Charles II, some Indians are shown eating the remains of bodies. In the foreground are two groups of warriors. On the right, the Mexicans are holding up the heads of Spanish soldiers as a warning of what might happen to the rest of the army, which is depicted on the left side of the composition. The work is executed using the technique of “enconchado”. This is applied to a wooden support lined with linen cloth, sometimes with a gesso preparation, sometimes with animal glue, then fragments of nacre are applied and covered with the pictorial layer.

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