Los Ninos Heroes La historia mexicana en Chapultepec Castle

Diego Rivera Mexican Artist Diego Rivera painted murals depicting plebian accounts of Mexican culture

Los Niños Héroes The Boy Heroes Los Niños Héroes Juan de la Barrera  (age 19) Juan Escutia  (age 15–19) (?) Francisco Márquez  (age 13) Agustín Melgar  (age 15–19) (?) Fernando Montes de Oca  (age 15–19) (?) Vicente Suárez  (age 14 Painted by Diego Rivera Juan Escutia, wrapped himself with the Mexican flag and jumped from the roof of the castle to keep it from falling into enemy hands during the Battle of Chapultepec Castle during the invasion of México City in 1847 This mural tells the bravery of cadets in the face of eminent defeat

Flower Day (Día de flores) Painted by Diego Rivera in 1925 Currently in the LACMA Throughout his career, Diego Rivera created numerous easel paintings and watercolors representing the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Flower Day (Día de flores) is his earliest and most accomplished depiction of a seller of calla lilies. The unusual perspective of the flowers, which are seen from above, and the block-like forms of the figures are stylistic devices derived from Rivera's earlier cubist paintings. Flower Day (Día de flores) is Rivera's first major painting to enter a public collection in the United States. It was acquired by the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (LACMA's parent institution) after winning first prize in the First Pan-American Exhibition of Oil Paintings (1925)

Some of Rivera's most famous murals are featured at the National School of Agriculture at Chapingo near Texcoco painted during the years (1925–27), in the Cortés Palace in Cuernavaca  painted during the years (1929–30), and the National Palace in Mexico City (1929–30, 1935) Murals depict important events in México’s history, from the invasion of Spanish conquistadores, 1810 Revolution, Reform Wars and the 1910 Revolution, rise of caudillos Pancho Villa in the north and Emilio Zapata in the South against a central conservative government regime dubbed ‘Porfiriato’ after Porfirio Diaz and his foreign controlled government.

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