New exhibition at Branigan Center explores mestizo identity, looted art repatriation cbs4local.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbs4local.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new exhibition that not only explores mestizo identity but also sheds light on the history of looted artworks and repatriation is opening at the Branigan Cult
Two Worlds Collide: Spanish Conquistadors And The Aztecs historyextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from historyextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This engraving shows Aztec King Montezuma II meeting conquistador Hernán Cortés. Montezuma II ruled from 1502 to 1520. Prisma/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
A little more than 500 years ago, a meeting occurred between two men that forever altered the course of history. The encounter took place in the magnificent Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, the seat of a wealthy and powerful Aztec empire that ruled over vast regions of central and southern Mexico. On Nov. 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, after months of battling neighboring cities, entered Tenochtitlán and won an audience with the emperor we know as Montezuma II, the last fully independent ruler of the Aztec empire.