Simó Gómez
The Shadows of Barcelona Barcelona, 1845. A child is born into a family of merchants, destined for a life of commerce until the pull of the engraver's tool takes hold. Simó Gómez begins his training at the Escola de la Llotja, absorbing the lessons of Ramón Martí Alsina and the precision of lithography under Eusebi Planas. The air in the workshop is thick with the scent of ink and the scratch of metal. By seventeen, the horizon shifts toward France. He moves to Paris alongside his brother Enric, seeking work in the studio of Alfred Lemercier, but the engraver's path dissolves. The École des…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of Simó Gómez's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.