Brief Biography-Juan Cordero, formally known as Juan Nepomuceno María Bernabé del Corazón de Cordero de Hoyos, was born in Teziutlán, Mexico, in 1822. He began his studies in the Academia de San Carlos and was subsequently sent to Rome to study at the Accademia di San Luca. While in Rome, the exiled president of Mexico, Anastasio Bustamante, organised a post for him in Vatican City.
When he returned to Mexico in 1853, he failed to become a director at the Academy before drifting around Mexico. He received several commissions for portraits throughout the country; however, he eventually took up murals. In 1874, he painted what was to be the first secular Mural in Mexico at the National Preparatory School; it received a hostile reaction before being destroyed later. There exists a copy of the mural by the artist Juan M. Pacheco. The Church of Santa Teresa dome was one of his more noted Murals.