The Historian · Bruno · Mexico City
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso
Muralism started on these walls, not in a gallery. The state handed young painters a colonial school and said: teach a nation that can't read. They did.
The old Jesuit college where Mexican Muralism was born in 1922 — Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros first painted its courtyards and stairwells.
— Bruno, The Historian
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