Ramón López Velarde
1888–1921
Wrote the poem Mexicans learn by heart, then died at thirty-three
Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City
In memory of
Diego Rivera
Muralist
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 70 years
- Resting place
- Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City, Mexico
Rivera returned from Europe in 1921 convinced that art belonged on public walls rather than in private houses. Over the next thirty years he covered ministries, schools and palaces with the history of Mexico, from the Aztec markets to the revolution.
A mural he painted in New York was destroyed for including Lenin; he repainted it in Mexico City. He asked to be buried beside Frida Kahlo, but the state placed him in the rotunda of illustrious persons.
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Engraver who gave Mexico its skeletons
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