José Guadalupe Posada
1852–1913
Engraver who gave Mexico its skeletons
Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City — his grave was lost
In memory of
Frida Kahlo
Painter of Coyoacán
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 47 years
- Resting place
- Ashes at the Casa Azul, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
A bus accident at eighteen broke Kahlo's spine and pelvis and left her in pain for the rest of her life. She began painting in bed, with a mirror above her, and made some fifty-five self-portraits out of what she could see.
She had one solo exhibition in Mexico in her lifetime and attended it in a four-poster bed carried into the gallery. Her ashes are kept in a pre-Columbian urn in the blue house in Coyoacán where she was born and died.
This page was written by the site, from public historical records.
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Diego Rivera
1886–1957
Muralist
Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City
Leona Vicario
1789–1842
Financed the independence war and was the first woman honoured by the Mexican state
Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City
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