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DIA Rivera Court Icons: East Wall West Wall South Wall Artist(s): Diego Rivera Genre(s): visual arts Medium/Media: Fresco Material(s): Pigment on plaster wall Technique(s): Fresco is the art of painting on plaster. Pure fresco is painted on damp, fresh lime plaster. When the binder in the lime dries, it forms a calcium carbonate that incorporates the pigment with the material of the wall. Dimensions: 27 fresco panels on the walls of a large garden court inside the Detroit Institute of Arts Date made: 1932-33 Where made: Detroit, Michigan In whose collection: Detroit Institute of the Arts Collection# (s): Photograph of work by: Not Known Rights to photograph courtesy of: Detroit Institute of Arts The Mural Then and Now