The Storming of the Teocalli by Cortez & his Troops.
19th c American Romantic Painting
Emanuel Gottlieb LEUTZE
(Germany, 1816 - 1868, Washington D.C.)
1848
19th c
Oil; Canvas
Romantic
Dusseldorf. Germany.
Hartford. Wadsworth Atheneum.
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Leutze based his painting on William Prescott's description in the History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). The events happened in June 1520.
Caption:
LEUTZE Emanuel Gottlieb | The Storming of the Teocalli by Cortez & his Troops. | 1848 | American | Romantic