America / Colonial history / Spanish conquest of Mexico under Hern醤 Cort閟 1519 to 1521 / Alliance with the city-state Tlaxcala against the Aztecs 1519.- "El Senado de Tlaxcala" (The Senate of Tlaxcala). -(The Tlaxcaltek Senate debates the alliance offer; standing on the platform the Kazike Xicot閚catl the elder; who advocates the offer; standing in the foreground his son Xicot閚catl the Younger; who wants to continue the fight against the Spaniards).Painting; 1875; by Rodrigo Guti閞rez (1848-1903.Oil on canvas; 191 x 232.5 cm.Constitutive Collection 1982.Inv. No. 15239.Mexico City; Museo Nacional de Arte.