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Diego María Rivera was born in Guanajuato, on December 8th, 1886.
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Diego´s parents were Diego Rivera and Maria del Pilar Barrientos. His father worked as a teacher and his mother was a doctor.
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The Rivera family traveled to Mexico City in 1892.
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Diego began to study painting at the San Carlos Academy of fine arts in Mexico City.
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Rivera was expelled from the Academy for leading a student protest when Porfirio Diaz was reelected as president of Mexico.
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Teodoro A. Dehesa, the governor of Veracruz paid for Riveras' studies in Europe.
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Rivera traveled to Paris, France. In Paris he was influenced by impressionist painters like Pierre Auguste Renoir.
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Rivera´s first mural, "The Creation", was painted in the Bolivar Amphitheader at the University of Mexico.
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Rivera created frescoes in the Ministry of Education building in Mexico City.
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Rivera painted the frescoes in the Auditorium of the National School of Agriculture in Chapingo.
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Diego Rivera married for the artist Frida Kahlo.
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The fresco was created in the Detroit Institute of Arts, which represent industrial life in the United States.
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Rivera painted a mural for the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City.
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Rivera painted a mural for the hotel del Prado, "A dream in the Alameda".
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One year after Frida's dead Diego married Emma Hurtado.
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Diego Rivera died in Mexico City on November 25, 1957.
