🎭 Culture Jun 22, 2026 · Noelani Kirschner

Francisco Moreno

The American Scholar
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Francisco Moreno
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Francisco Moreno’s paintings are an art historian’s dream, full of allegories and references to well-known paintings. He grew up in Mexico City, watching his grandmother paint in her studio. She took Moreno to see Diego Rivera’s murals when he was young, which left him awestruck by “the ambition of the work, the combination of painting and architecture,” he says. Rivera’s career trajectory stood out to Moreno—how the former “left painting in Paris to go study Giotto in Italy, to return to Mexico

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