The woman at the center of the mural represents a much older theme, one woven through history in Europe and Africa, one captured unwittingly in fiction 500 years ago, one that repeated itself in North America.
Montalvo had spent his early adulthood as a soldier in the army of Ferdinand and Isabella, the famous royal duo who drove Muslim rulers out of the Andalusian peninsula in 1492.
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