Source: WTL research files.
Mural: The title of this mural, which is on the far right of the patio corridor, is "Disembarkation of the Spanish at Veracruz" (1951). It is a fresco on a movable steel frame.
Comments: In the bottom center, the left figure is said to be Hernán Cortés, whom Diego Rivera has depicted as being a victim of syphilis, a disease he caught but from which he recovered. More likely, the figure to the right of the sallow-faced man is Cortés, and the man with the book between these two is the king's notary, who is documenting every action and every transaction. In the middle left, the conquistador with the red beard is Alvarado, known to the Aztecs as Tonátiuh (Sun God). The perspective from which we see this mural here is rather static. For a view of this panel as any tourist would see it, go to the embedded photograph: => Diego River #21a. To confirm the professor-photographer's suggestion about which figure represents Cortés—against the prevailing view of most tourist guides—compare the close-up image in Diego Rivera's mural "The Conquest of Cuernavaca:" => Museo de Cuauhnáhuac 8i bis.