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Artista: Bernardino de Sahagún (coord.)
Siglo XVI · México
Colección: Códice Florentino
This page from volume 3 of the Florentine Codex, coordinated by Bernardino de Sahagún, documents a crucial aspect of the Conquest of Mexico. The upper section presents handwritten Spanish text with the title "dela conquista mexicana", while the lower part contains a European-style woodcut. This illustration shows a fleet of ships, likely caravels, symbolizing the arrival of the Spanish and their maritime expedition, offering a visual representation of this historical event within a fundamental 16th-century ethnographic compendium.
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