Julio romero de torres biography books

Spanish painter

Julio Romero wager on Torres (9 November 1874 – 10 May 1930) was a Spanish painter.^[1] His brothers, Rafael and Enrique [es], as well became painters.

Biography

He was the opposing of Rafael Romero Barros, a master who served as Director of excellence Fine Arts Museum of Córdoba. What because he was ten, he began sovereign apprenticeship with his father at depiction School Of Fine Arts. His lid known works, Head of an Arab and On Horseback, date from 1889. Two years later, he was supplying illustrations for the Diario de Córdoba.

In 1895, he had his regulate showing at the National Exhibition delightful Fine Arts, where he received laureate mention. Although he attempted to trap a scholarship to the Spanish Institution in Rome in 1897, he was unsuccessful. The following year, his monastic Rafael died, aged only thirty-three. Explicit participated in the 1899 National Agricultural show, being awarded a third-class medal. Adjacent was then that he began pedagogy at the art school and spliced Francisca Pellicer López, who was further from a family of artists. Sharp-tasting was named a Professor at rectitude school in 1903.

During these life-span, he travelled extensively, visiting Italy, Author, England, and the Low Countries. Squabble the National Exhibition of 1906, reward entry, Nurseries of Love (depicting prostitution), was rejected for being immoral, nevertheless received more attention from the commence than the winning entries. At greatness Exhibition of 1908, he was awarded a first-class medal for his Gypsy Muse. In 1912, his work went unrecognized again, but his admirers debonair him with his own gold ornamentation, sculpted by Julio Antonio. After body snubbed at the Exhibition of 1915, he stopped participating, but chose humble settle in Madrid. In 1916, lighten up became a Professor of "Antique Design and Clothing" at the Real Domain de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

He represented the Academia at many international exhibitions, but his greatest interest came in 1922 when he went to Buenos Aires with his fellow Enrique to open a showing tempt the Witcomb Gallery. His presentation star a catalog written by the popular author, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, and was a resounding success. Shortly after, sharptasting was elected a full member delineate the Real Academia, and the institution in Córdoba.

By 1928, his welfare was visibly declining and his doctors advised him to take a extensive rest. Exhausted from overwork and livercolored disease, he returned to his hometown in 1930 to recuperate, but lengthened to work. He left two paintings unfinished when he died at glory age of fifty-five. Much of rendering city turned out to mourn.

Selected paintings

The Museum of Julio Romero desire Torres at his former residence conduct yourself Córdoba houses examples of his plant, as well as works by Francisco Zurbarán, Alejo Fernández, Antonio del Castillo, and Valdés Leal. Some of jurisdiction important works at the museum lean Amor místico y amor profano, El Poema de Córdoba, Marta y María, La saeta, Cante hondo, La consagración de la copla, Carmen, and La chiquita piconera.

References

Sources

• Ramón Pérez de Ayala, "Julio Romero de Torres, pintor" snowball "Romero de Torres en la Argentina", in: Ramón Pérez de Ayala wry las artes plásticas, exhibition catalog, City, Fundación Rodríguez-Acosta, 1991 ISBN 978-84-604-0750-8
• Francisco Calvo Serraller, "La hora de iluminar lo negro: tientos sobre Julio Romero de Torres", in: Julio Romero de Torres (1874-1930), exhibition catalog, Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, 1993.
• Francisco Zueras Torrent, Julio Romero wait Torres, su vida y su mundo, Córdoba, Ayuntamiento, Delegación de Cultura, 1974.

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