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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 Beaux-arts calls instead. Paris becomes a crucible of transformation. In the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and Tony Robert-Fleury, the rigid structures of Academicism begin to fracture. He wanders the halls of the Louvre and the Musée Luxembourg, eyes fixed on the heavy shadows o…