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Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera

By Fernanda Ceron

  • Birthday.

    Birthday.
    Diego María Rivera was born in Guanajuato, on December 8th, 1886.

  • Parents.

    Parents.
    Diego´s parents were Diego Rivera and Maria del Pilar Barrientos. His father worked as a teacher and his mother was a doctor.

  • Family.

    Family.
    The Rivera family traveled to Mexico City in 1892.

  • Study.

    Study.
    Diego began to study painting at the San Carlos Academy of fine arts in Mexico City.

  • Protest.

    Protest.
    Rivera was expelled from the Academy for leading a student protest when Porfirio Diaz was reelected as president of Mexico.

  • Study.

    Study.
    Teodoro A. Dehesa, the governor of Veracruz paid for Riveras' studies in Europe.

  • Traveled.

    Traveled.
    Rivera traveled to Paris, France. In Paris he was influenced by impressionist painters like Pierre Auguste Renoir.

  • Mural.

    Mural.
    Rivera´s first mural, "The Creation", was painted in the Bolivar Amphitheader at the University of Mexico.

  • Fresco.

    Fresco.
    Rivera created frescoes in the Ministry of Education building in Mexico City.

  • Fresco.

    Fresco.
    Rivera painted the frescoes in the Auditorium of the National School of Agriculture in Chapingo.

  • Married.

    Married.
    Diego Rivera married for the artist Frida Kahlo.

  • Fresco.

    Fresco.
    The fresco was created in the Detroit Institute of Arts, which represent industrial life in the United States.

  • Mural.

    Mural.
    Rivera painted a mural for the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.

  • Mural.

    Mural.
    Rivera painted a mural for the hotel del Prado, "A dream in the Alameda".

  • Married.

    Married.
    One year after Frida's dead Diego married Emma Hurtado.

  • Died.

    Died.
    Diego Rivera died in Mexico City on November 25, 1957.