The Iconic Painting of La Chiquita Piconera by Julio Romero de Torres: A Symbol of Love and Loss

The most iconic painting of Julio Romero de Torres It houses, like many of the great painter’s works, coded messages and small nods to the city of his loves.

The scene of The little piconera, which is located in room 8 of the Julio Romero de Torres Museum, takes place inside a humble room. A young woman appears sitting on a cattail chair, leaning over a copper brazier, while she holds a metal brazier in her hands.

The viewer sees an open door in the background, but also distinguishes the Paseo de la Ribera, the Guadalquivir River, the Roman Bridge and the Calahorra, all under an evening sky.

Furthermore, in the dark and dense atmosphere that surrounds the painting, there are those who have interpreted a certain metaphor of the dark evening, as a metaphor that advocates the painter’s imminent death.

La Chiquita Piconera is a portrait of the model María Teresa López. From the Museum itself they assure that “it is the authentic pictorial testament of Julio Romero de Torres. In this painting he synthesizes his entire conception of painting and art.” It is a “summary and compendium” work of his entire life and artistic career. In this painting, there is some “message” of what Romero de Torres understood painting to be and what he wanted to express with it.

Classically and impeccably crafted, unlike canvases from the same period, the model does not look into infinity, but directly not only at the painter but also at the viewer. But, above all, it is a microcosm where all the fundamental elements that define the Cordoba’s painting come together: the mists that surround Córdoba, “always distant and close; beauty as an ideal, reflected in women; the mixture of ardor and coldness; of sweetness and disenchantment, of archaism and modernity; of nostalgia and presence”.

2023-11-08 05:40:32
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