Manuel Vilar was a Spanish-born sculptor who worked in the mid-19th Century in Mexico City. Above, a shot of his Neoclassical renderings of Moctezuma II and La Malinche, side by side in the "Construction of a Nation" rooms of the second floor of the Museo Nacional de Arte. Below, a close-up of what is perhaps Vilar's most famous work, a larger-than-life sculpture of the heroic Tlaxcalan warrior, Tlahuicole, who preferred to die as a gladiator rather than face his people for compromising with the Aztecs.
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