A scratchbuilt 120mm vignette depicting the moment when the battle for Tenichtitlian is over, when one of the most beautiful cities in the world lies in ruins, burned to the ground, where an empire ended and a new one emerged...

A follow scene to my last Aztec vignette
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I wanted here to focus on the emotions, the sadness, the destruction that a world had ended.
Covered in the dust, blood and the ashes from the fighting the conquistador looks out over the dissaster...

And in the worlds of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a spaniard who took part in the army of Cortez:

" Not a stone of this beautiful town is now standing"