Focus on this artwork and explain the Colonial Panel.
The colonial panel covers 300 years, starting with the arrival of Spanish soldiers or Conquistadors, in November,1531 in what was then called Huaxyacac, some three months after the fall of Tenochitlan. The panel highlights the Conquest, Princess Donají, construction, mistreatment of indigenous people, Sor Juana de la Cruz, Miguel Cabrera, Manuel Fernández Fiallo, cochineal, church music and organs, craftsmen and Spanish colonizers.
Tenochitlan fall colonial Conquistador cochineal