Diego Maria de la Rivera Barrientos and his own brother Carlos were on December 13 in Leon, Guanajuato. Carlos died in 1888, which left Diego as only child. Since he was very young ( he begins to draw at the age of three), he loved to paint, so much that his father covered a room of their house in Guanajuanto with paper so that the child could paint all over the walls. Diego says that it was in …showed first 75 words of 1066 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1066 total…started the murals of the National Palace in Mexico city. This would become one of his most important works.This mural was commisioned in 1929 during the presidency of Emilio Portes Gil. Frida dies on July 13 of 1954. This marks the start of Diego’s own death. In 1955 he is diasgnosed with cancer but he keeps workiong on his murals. On July 29th, almost a year after Frida’s death he marries Emma Hurtado, his agent since 1946.