America / Colonial History / Spanish Conquest of Mexico under Hern醤 Cort閟 1519-1521.- "Manda el capit醤 cort閟 echar las naos a pique - corren los soldados escaramuzas disparan los tiros y se admiran los embajadores - trad Tendile y Pitalpitoque el presente del sol de oro y la luna de plata que env韆 Moctezuma con su embajador Quintalvor que se parec韆 a Cort閟". -(Tendile and Pitalpitoque; emissaris of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma / Montezuma II; hand over a golden sun and a silver moon disc to Cor閟 on Easter Sunday; 1519).Painting; around 1696/1715; by Miguel and Juan Gonzales.Panel II of the series: La Conquista de M閤ico (The Conquest of Mexico).Organic pigments; ink; stucco; mother-of-pearl and organic varnish on canvas on scrim panel; 100 x 52 cm.Inv. No. 6326.Buenos Aires; Fine Art Museum.