Murals in Mexico

Twenty-four works by the last great Mexican muralist tell the story of Tlaxcala.

This 16th-century missionary site features Catholic murals, stone carvings, and fortress-like architecture.

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

A modern feminist movement has brought to life the mural that machismo once denied to artist María Izquierdo.

Works from the golden age of Mexican muralism can be found inside a typical city market.

Home to works by notable Mexican artists and an underwater mosaic of the pre-Columbian goddess Gaia.

This series of paintings celebrate a locally beloved snail species.

The outside of this theater is decorated with a Diego Rivera mural that explores the history of Mexico.

At the base of Peña de Bernal, a small business keeps evidence of alleged extraterrestrial visitors on display.

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

The ruins of the humble house of one of Mexico's most iconic revolutionaries.

The entrance to an early 20th-century cultural center features murals that deal with the cultural fusion that characterizes Mexico.

The walls and ceilings of the "Mexican Sistine Chapel" are almost completely covered with mural, sculpture, inscriptions and oil paintings.

These millennia-old murals once covered the walls of residential complexes across the ancient city.

A bright, colorful telling of the history of Mexico's youngest state.

Monumental paintings, discovered in a Mexican cathedral in 1957, depict the deaths of some friars in Japan.