Lienzo de Tlaxcala

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Lienzo de Tlaxcala is a 16th-century pictorial codex created by Tlaxcalan artists that documents the alliance with Hernán Cortés and the conquest of the Aztec Empire from an Indigenous perspective.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican manuscript
historical document
pictorial codex
artStyle Indigenous Mesoamerican pictography
hybrid Indigenous–European colonial style
associatedWith Aztec Empire
Hernán Cortés
Spanish Empire
Tlaxcalan leadership
surface form: Tlaxcalan nobility
countryOfOrigin Tlaxcala
creator Tlaxcalan artists
culturalContext Viceroyalty of New Spain
surface form: Colonial New Spain

Post-conquest Mesoamerica
depicts Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
alliance between Tlaxcala and Hernán Cortés
ethnicGroupRepresented Nahua
surface form: Nahua peoples

Spaniards
Tlaxcalans
function petitionary document for privileges and recognition
record of Tlaxcalan participation in conquest
genre historical narrative
historicalEventDepicted Siege of Tenochtitlan
surface form: Spanish–Aztec War

Siege of Tenochtitlan
surface form: fall of Tenochtitlan

formation of the Tlaxcala–Spanish alliance
iconography Indigenous warriors and Spanish soldiers
battle scenes
processions and meetings
language Nahuatl pictorial tradition
material cloth
medium lienzo (canvas)
perspective Indigenous Tlaxcalan perspective
presentDayLocation Mexico
regionDepicted Central Mexico
relatedField Mesoamerican studies
colonial Latin American art history
ethnohistory
relatedWork Lienzo de Quauhquechollan
significance evidence of Indigenous agency in colonial narratives
important example of Tlaxcalan historical memory
key Indigenous source on the conquest of Mexico
subject Spanish–Indigenous alliances
military campaigns of conquest
role of Tlaxcala in the conquest of Mexico
timePeriod 16th century

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Moctezuma II portrayedIn Lienzo de Tlaxcala
Tarascan (Purépecha) civilization source Lienzo de Tlaxcala
this entity surface form: Relación de Michoacán
Tlaxcala associatedWith Lienzo de Tlaxcala
this entity surface form: Tlaxcalan codices
Tlaxcala associatedWith Lienzo de Tlaxcala
Tlaxcalans produced Lienzo de Tlaxcala