David Rockefeller, Jr.: To make his murals, Rivera used traditional Italian fresco-making techniques but applied them in innovative new ways. Conservator, Anny Aviram. Conservator, Anny Aviram: Fresco ...

But Rivera’s mural, like all true fresco, had been painted into a coat of plaster. The workmen tried to get it off in big chunks, save as much as they could.

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Diego Rivera’s public art and murals in Mexico and the United States made him a sought-after artist. Works such as his multi-panel fresco Detroit Industry Murals (1932–33), at the Detroit Institute of ...

Muralist Rivera once had an entire fresco panel by Jean Chariot chopped off a Mexican wall because it did not match his own work on the same building, but when his mural in Manhattan’s ...

He saw Rivera’s mural work in Mexico City and created his own variation on what had already become a local “national” style.

Last year they had Diego Rivera repaint in Mexico City’s pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center (TIME, May ...

On scaffolding before it stood a big, drooping man with a gloomy face and sad Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world’s foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from ...

"The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City," painted by Diego Rivera in 1931, sits in a private gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. The mural was included as part of the sale ...

Two public institutions -- an art museum and a community college -- are facing dueling lawsuits over who will pay to move a massive Diego Rivera fresco.

SFMOMA is suing CCSF for costs involved in relocating a famous, 30-ton Diego Rivera mural, which it began showing in 2021.