
The main differences between the image of Cortés's nighttime retreat from Tenochtitlán in 1520 (
la noche triste) on
The Garden of Delights/El Jardín de las Delicias and on a later
biombo are that the
biombo includes more identifiable scenes and that it has a key indicating that
la noche triste is marked with the letter H (near the bottom of the third panel from the right).
The Garden of Delights/El Jardín de las Delicias version is also obviously a hell scene (setting aside for the moment the question of whether there were similar battle scenes in hell before the imitation-Bosch paintings) but that may be primarily because the knife has to do with Martin Luther.

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