Source: WTL photo© taken on site in the Museo Regional Cuauhnáhuac in Cuernavaca.
Image: Fragments of Diego Rivera's murals flanking an arched doorway on the museum's second floor balcony. This is the last panel of the mural of the Spanish conquest of Cuernavaca (aka Cuauhnáhuac by the pre-conquest inhabitants).
Comments: Diego Rivera is one of Mexico's three major muralists from the first half of the 20th century. His murals are intended for visual narratives of Mexico's often violent history and are intended as part of the modern reeducation of the Mexican public about its history and culture from its pre-Columbian indigenous phase to the period of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Incidentally, Diego Rivera was commissioned in the 1920s to produce these particular murals by Dwight Morrow, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico at the time. Rivera created this series of murals in 1929-1930.
Question: What are the message and the effect of having Diego Rivera's murals in this building, which was originally built by Hernán Cortés with African slave laborers brought to Cuernavaca from Spain's newly acquired Caribbean islands?
Embedded Images of the Complete Mural: To see and study the mural, see: => Museo de Cuauhnáhuac Mural, and then click on the right arrows to continue through the series on this mural.