Chronogolgy of the Life of Diego Rivera
||Born Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de
la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez on the 8th of December, along with
his twin brother Carlos, in Guanajuato, Mexico, to Diego and María Barrientos
||Since the death of his brother the year before, for his bad health and to
avoid his brother's fate, Diego was sent to live in the mountains with his
nursemaid Antonia. He literally grew up with the animals of the wild, and
eventually recovered his health.
||Returned to live with his parents.
||His sister Maria was born.
||Began studying art at the School of Fine Arts in San Carlos at night, while going to school during the day.
||For organizing a demonstration that ended up in violence, Diego was
expelled from San Carlos and never again studied formally at a school or
||Gave his first exhibition, directed by the great and famous painter,
Murillo Atl, in order to earn the right to travel to Europe on a government
subsidy. It was a huge success and he sold every single painting.
||Declared his "common law" marriage to Angeline Belloff, with whom he had
his only son that later died from menengitis in 1917 before his second
||His cubist period; he became friends with Pablo Picasso in 1914.
||Started work on his famous mural at the National Prep School at the
University of Mexico. Married Lupe Marín. Met Frida Kahlo for the first
||Completed his mural at the Prep School, married Lupe officially, and became a member fo the Communist Party of Mexico.
||His first daughter with Lupe, also named Lupe but called 'Pico' ("pointy head") was born.
||His second daughter with Lupe, Ruth, or Chapo (“black as crude oil”) was born. Lupe and Diego divorced.
||Married Frida Kahlo. Was expelled from the Communist Party.
||Completed the fresco at the Palace of Fine Arts.
||Saved by Frida from an assassination attempt by agents of General Cedillo.
||Diego and Frida divorced.
||Frida and Diego remarried on Diego's 54th birthday, the 8th of December.
||Diego painted his most famous mural, Sunday Dream, in the Hotel del Prado.
||Contracted cancer of the penis, something extrememly rare, and was cured by X-ray treatment.
||Frida dies during the night of the 13th of July.
||His cancer resurfaced and he had to go to Moscow to get cured. Married Emma Hurtado.
||Diego died on November 25.