Diego Rivera (born December 8, 1886 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico - died November 24, 1957)), full name Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez) was a cubist painter and muralist living in Mexico.
Diego is perhaps best known by the world public for painting a vast mural in the 1930s featuring early communist leaders juxtaposed with the Founding Fathers of the United States in the lobby of the Rockefeller Building. That work was quickly destroyed by angry Rockefeller staff people before it could be completed in that location; see the movie Cradle Will Rock for a reenactment.
