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Bernal Diaz:
>"...there are three Indians now living in the city of Mexico...who are such magnificent painters and carvers that, had they lived in the age of the famous Apelles...or of Michelangelo or Berrugeute in our own day, they would be counted in the same rank"
See also text in pic in >716295749

Albrect Durer (a famous German artist)
>I saw the things [brought from Mexico]... a sun all of gold a whole fathom broad, and a moon all of silver of the same size, also two rooms full of armor of the people there, and all manner of wondrous weapons of theirs, harness and darts, very strange clothing, beds, and all kinds of wonderful objects of human use, much better worth seeing than [myths or fairy tales]. These things were all so precious that they are valued at 100,000 florins. All the days of my life I have seen nothing that rejoiced my heart so much as these things, for I saw amongst them wonderful works of art, and I marveled at the subtle [genius] of men in foreign lands. Indeed I cannot express all that I thought there

Hernan Cortes:
>"We believe... by the aid of the interpreters who should plainly declare to them the truths of the Holy Faith...many... would very quickly depart from the their evil ways and would come to true knowledge, for they live more equally and reasonably than any other....which we have hitherto come across"
See also the text in the pic in >716292191

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I got mixed up and the 30 (actually 40) page doc is the Spanish quote one I'm pulling the stuff i'm dumping now from (and I am making heavy cuts and slight paraphrasing of the quotes for space due to how long the whole doc, nor am I posting every single passage), the ruin reference doc as evidence for the accuracy of the artistic reconstructions is "only" 5ish pages, I say only because there's still 80 links in it, here:

pastebin.com/1Q5LDa6n

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