Diego Rivera (11)


Source: WTL research files.
Image: This is the chapel at the Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo. Here is the homepage for this university: => Chapingo.
Comments: This university was founded in 1920, at the end of the Mexican Revolution, and an agricultural college. In 1927, Diego Rivera fell from the scaffold while working on these mural, and he was badly injured. At the same time his daughter Ruth was born to Guadalupe Marín, but this marriage ended then. He visited the Soviet Union, where he gives several lectures. The figure at the far end of the chapel symbolizes the earth liberated and forces of nature controlled by humans. Other panels deal with subjects such as revolutionary leadership, class consciousness, the abundant earth, guardians of truth, etc.
Questions: Given the fact that this is a chapel, what divinity is being honored? Why choose such a divinity in this kind of university? What is traditionally Mexican about the murals in this chapel? (A close-up of the end wall can be seen in Rivera #12.)