The “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central” / “Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central”, one of Diego Rivera’s most famous works and is the centrepiece of the Diego Rivera Mural Museum in Mexico City.
The Diego Rivera Mural Museum is one of the museums in Mexico City that you can visit for free on Sunday.
Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central
The world-renowned 15.6-metre-long mural was painted between 1946 and 1947. It was part of a group of murals by several artists, Miguel Covarrubias, Gabriel Fernandez Ledesma and Roberto Montenegro, commissioned for the Hotel del Prado on Juarez Avenue on the south side of Alameda Central.
Rivera painted a satirical view of society in Mexico City with many prominent figures, even featuring himself, seen below, as a 10-year-old boy, alongside Frida Kahlo (his wife between 1929 and 1939 and whom he remarried in 1940) and La Catrina (the Skeleton), a figure created by the Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada:
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Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was a Mexican Painter. Born in Guanajuato, December 8, 1886. He trained at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He spent more than a decade in Europe, where he became a leading figure in Paris’s vibrant international community of avant-garde artists. On his return to Mexico, he adopted his own style and became a leader of the Mexican muralist movement.
The 1985 earthquake destroyed much of the city, but it was found that the Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central mural had survived pretty much intact.
In 1988, the Diego Rivera Mural Museum opened its doors to the public, taking on the responsibility of both the conservation and exhibition of the Diego Rivera Mural:
A few of the other paintings by other artists, on display at the Diego Rivera Mural Museum in Mexico City:
It was my second time here at the Diego Rivera Mural Museum:
Diego Rivera married Frida Kahlo on August 21, 1929. He was 42. She was 22. They divorced in 1939, but remarried on December 8, 1940, in San Francisco.
Where is the Museo Mural Diego Rivera?
The Diego Rivera Mural Museum is located on the west side of the Alameda Central, near the Hidalgo Metro Station.
Opening times:
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday – 10:00 am to 6 pm.
Entrance ticket: 45 pesos + Sunday is free.