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Word: nepomuceno (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta, 53, toad-shaped Mexican muralist otherwise known as Diego Rivera; and his third wife, Frida Kahlo Rivera, 29, svelte German-Mexican modernist painter, classed by Diego among the four or five best in the world, owner of the Coyoacán haven where Leon Trotsky spent two years in exile; in Mexico City. Explained Muralist Rivera, his pet monkey perched on his shoulder: "There is no change in the magnificent relations between us. We are doing it in order to improve Frida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door to door ran a set of 21 heavy, richly-colored fresco panels, a present to Communism by a man generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest muralist-Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Communist Riches | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Diego Rivera is only an excerpt of his name. His Mexican parents had him baptized Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta. Nobody ever called him anything but Diego Rivera, though many critics call him the greatest mural painter in the western hemisphere. If he is not the greatest, he is certainly the largest. His bulkiest rival. Joseph Urban, tips the scales at 230 Ib. Mural Painter Rivera displaced 250 Ib. the last time he was weighed; friends claim that he has expanded greatly since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Square-foot Show | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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