"The collective work "1521. The Conquest of Mexico in Art" summoned 11 specialists in ethnohistory, history of the art, of mentalities and ideas, with the purpose of looking, asking, inquiring and interpreting the places, nations and individuals who for five centuries have felt the need to relate and reinterpret incessantly what the Conquest of (what we now call) Mexico meant to them." (HKB Translation) --Page [16]. It is appreciated in these pages the freshness of the looks of the original peoples in the viceregal centuries, of the New Hispanics, of the Madrid court, of their adversaries in Europe and North America; and, once New Spain was converted into Mexico, of the conflicted and contradictory gaze of the new Mexican nation towards that war, at once devastating and creative. The Porfiriato, the Mexican Revolution, the ideas of Vasconcelos, the muralism, the contribution of the Spanish Republican exiles and the creative whirlwind of Contemporary Mexican art close a pedagogical and controversial parade of reflections on what we consider the origin of contemporary Mexico. Undoubtedly, 1521.