Lienzo de Tlaxcala pictorial tradition

Timeline

1. c. 1531–1535Tlaxcala · TlaxcalaIn the early 1530s, Tlaxcalan elites under the colonial order continued the pre-Columbian pictorial narrative tradition, recording the confederacy's history and the conquest narrative in continuous scenes on cloth, forming the new genre of the lienzo (pictorial cloth).
2. c. 1536–1540Tlaxcala · TlaxcalaIn the mid-to-late 1530s, the pictorial cloths were used to demonstrate to colonial authorities the Tlaxcalan confederacy's role in the conquest, using pictorial historiography to seek privileges and preserve autonomous memory, becoming an important visual tool of indigenous political discourse.