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Rivera’s monumental frescoes in the National Palace chronicle Mexico’s rich past. Completed between 1929 and 1947, this extensive work depicts key moments from pre-Hispanic cultures through the Mexican Revolution and into the mid-20th century. The murals are notable for their scale, artistic skill,...

Rivera’s “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park” is a monumental fresco completed in 1947. The artwork depicts a vibrant panoramic scene showcasing key moments in Mexican history through the figures assembled within Alameda Park, Mexico City. Rivera masterfully employs modernist techniques to...

Diego Rivera created the mural cycle in the courtyards of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City during the 1920s. Across more than two hundred fresco panels, he represented agricultural and industrial labor, festivals, regional customs, revolutionary politics, and Indigenous and me...

Man, Controller of the Universe is a 1934 fresco by Diego Rivera in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Rivera created it after his related Rockefeller Center mural, Man at the Crossroads, was destroyed following controversy over its political imagery and depiction of Vladimir Lenin. The com...

Tlatelolco Market is a mural scene by Diego Rivera within his historical cycle at the National Palace in Mexico City. It reconstructs the vast marketplace of pre-Columbian Tlatelolco through a panoramic gathering of merchants, customers, officials, goods, and ritual activity. Rivera used the market...

Creation is a mural painted by Diego Rivera in 1922 and 1923 for the Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar at the former College of San Ildefonso in Mexico City. Often identified as Rivera's first major government-sponsored mural, it presents allegorical figures representing intellectual, artistic, religious, an...