Zapata’s guerrilla tactics and death in a hail of bullets in 1919 all contributed to his mythology as a brave and masculine leader who was unafraid to fight. The exhibit, titled “Emiliano.

But in 1919, he was betrayed and killed by a traitorous ally. The peasant caudillo Emiliano Zapata stands in his barracks in 1911, wearing his signature charro hat.

William Schell Jr., Emiliano Zapata and the Old Regime: Myth, Memory, and Method, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer 2009), pp. 327-365 ...

People view a painting that depicts Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata nude, wearing high heels and a pink, broad-brimmed hat, straddling a horse, in Mexico City, on Dec. 10, 2019.

Mexican artist Fabián Cháirez stands next to his painting of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata, straddling a horse nude, wearing high heels and a pink hat, at the Fine Arts Palace in ...

Zapata’s grandson, Jorge Gonzalez, said he would sue the museum if the painting is not removed. “We are not going to allow this,” he said.

“ Emiliano. Zapata Después Zapata ” is on view at the Palacio de Bellas Arts, Avenue Hidalgo No. 1 Col. Centro, Alcadía, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico, November 27, 2019–February 16, 2020.