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Diego Rivera Mexican painter Diego Rivera working on a panel for the Portrait of America mural, 1933, for the New Workers' School, New York City (eight of the original 21 murals still exist and are now scattered in collections around the world).

Diego Rivera

Mexican painter
Also known as: Diego María Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez(Show More)
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Diego Rivera (born December 8, 1886, Guanajuato, Mexico—died November 25, 1957, Mexico City) was a Mexican painter who established a new iconography based on socialist ideologies and Mexico’s indigenous and popular heritage. His bold large-scale murals stimulated a revival of fresco painting in Latin America. Diego Rivera and his twin brother, Carlos Rivera, were born to parents who were both teachers in the mining town of Guanajuato, Mexico. Carlos, however, died at 18 months. A...

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