Source: WTL photo© on site in Mexico City, 2008.
Image: Diego Rivera mural: Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda / Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park (1947-1948). For enlarged detail of the far left of this image, see: => Sueño Mural E.
Comments: Detail of approximately the left one-third of the mural. On the extreme left is a scene of the Spanish colonial Inquisition, where heretics were burned at the stake (the Alameda Park is the original site of such executions). The large head to the left of the balloons is Benito Juárez, the hero of Mexican independence from the French in the middle of the 19th century. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz can be seen just to the right of the figure with the flayed back next to the Inquisition scene. In 1592, the viceroy of New Spain, converted the space occupied by the park, which was once an Aztec market place, into a public park. Nowadays in La Alameda Park is the grand monument (also called the Hemiciclo or hemicycle) dedicated to Benito Juárez, directly facing Avenida Juárez.
Humanities topic: Given this mural's title, what kind of "Sunday afternoon in the park" is Rivera depicting in this part of the mural?
Study the mural with this series of photos: => Sueño Mural A; => Sueño Mural C; => Sueño Mural D; => Sueño Mural E; => Sueño Mural F; => Sueño Mural G; => Sueño Mural H.