The Mural Painted Twice

In 1933, Diego Rivera painted the mural Man at the Crossroads at Rockefeller Center in New York. In February 1934, according to Vanguardia, Rockefeller Center announced remodeling work, and the mural was destroyed.

That same year, Rivera painted a second version on the second floor of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. It is called El hombre controlador del universo (Man, Controller of the Universe). (Video in Spanish.)

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