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Diego Rivera
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the mural movement in Mexican and international art.
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culture · Mexican muralist (1886–1957) · muralist · architectural drafter · draftsperson · painter · printmaker · sculptor · lithographer · watercolorist · also Diego Rivera, José Diego María Rivera, Diego Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, Diego Maria Rivera, diego m. rivera, Rivera Diego
Born 8 December 1886 · Died 25 November 1957 · Q171128
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2026· 5 entries
WBUR: Industry Murals show Detroit through artist Diego Rivera's eyes
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Public attention spiked: 4,091 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 1,233, with 0 article edits.
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World Screen: Netflix Prepping Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Drama
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Yahoo: After eight decades in obscurity, Diego Rivera's S.F. masterpiece is getting its moment
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2025· 3 entries
Mission Local: Diego Rivera’s ‘Mexican Mona Lisa’ hangs in an S.F. home. But not for long.
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Jazz: Diego Rivera: West Circle
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: EXHIBIT | OPINION: Diego Rivera’s time in Europe explored in show at AMFA
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1957· 1 entry
Died 1957-11-25.
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1955· 1 entry
Rivera married Emma Hurtado, his agent since 1946
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1954· 1 entry
Rivera tried to be readmitted into the Mexican Communist Party
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1950).
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1940· 1 entry
Invited again by Pflueger, Rivera returned for the last time to the United States to paint a ten-panel mural for the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco
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1939· 1 entry
But they remarried December 8, 1940, in San Francisco
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1935· 1 entry
“My Jewishness is the dominant element in my life”
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1934· 1 entry
In the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, calling this version Man, Controller of the Universe
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1933· 1 entry
For the Rockefeller Center in New York City, was later destroyed
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1931· 1 entry
A retrospective exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, shortly before Rivera's commencement of his 27-mural series known as Detroit Industry Murals the next year
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1929· 2 entries
After the assassination of president-elect Álvaro Obregón the previous year, the government suppressed the Mexican Communist Party
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American journalist Ernestine Evans's book The Frescoes of Diego Rivera, was published in New York City; it was the first English-language book on the artist
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1928· 1 entry
Rivera was ordered by authorities to leave the country because, he suspected, of "resentment on the part of certain Soviet artists"
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1926· 2 entries
Rivera became a member of AMORC, the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, an occult organization founded by American occultist Harvey Spencer Lewis
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Rivera was among the founders of AMORC's Mexico City lodge, called Quetzalcoatl after the pre-Columbian deity
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1921· 1 entry
To become involved in the government sponsored Mexican mural program planned by Vasconcelos
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1911· 1 entry
And had a son, Diego (1916–1918), who died young
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1907· 2 entries
Studied at Academy of San Carlos (1896–1907).
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Rivera first went to Madrid to study with Eduardo Chicharro
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1904· 1 entry
Engaged in cannibalism, pooling his money with others to "purchase cadavers from the city morgue" and particularly "relish[ing] women's brains in vinaigrette"
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1886· 3 entries
In Guanajuato, Mexico, to María del Pilar Barrientos and Diego Rivera Acosta, a well-to-do couple
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Born 1886-12-08.
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Rivera was born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, Mexico, to María del Pilar Barrientos and Diego Rivera Acosta, a well-to-do couple.
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