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Mural Paintings at Castillo de Chapultepec Now on the Web

Diego Rivera - A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park - Fresco, 1947-8

MEXICO CITY.- From the second half of
2010, the
National Museum of History “Castillo de Chapultepec” will include in its
web
page an interactive guide to the most acknowledged murals that represent
the
Independence and Revolution struggles, painted in the precinct.

The
paintings are “Fusion de dos Culturas” (Merger of two Cultures) by Jorge

Gonzalez Camarena; “Retablo de la Independencia” (Independence Tableau)
by Juan
O’ Gorman; “Revolucion contra la Dictadura Porfiriana” (Revolution
against
Porfirian Dictatorship) by David Alfaro Siqueiros, and “Alegoria de la
Revolucion Mexicana” (Allegory of Mexican Revolution) by Eduardo Solares

Gutierrez.