Diego Rivera (born December 13, 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, of Jewish Converso heritage and Catholic upbringing but a professed atheist, was in his early career an outstanding cubist painter and later a talented muralist, whose awareness strongly influenced his work, especially his murals portraying Mexican life and history. He is said to be regarded in Latin America today as a folk hero. From a common-law marriage to the artist Angelina Beloff he had a son, Diego Jr., who did not survive infancy, and from a relationship with the Russian emigrée painter Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska (Marevna) a daughter, Marika Rivera. His marriage to the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was childless after a miscarriage. Wikipedia
