• Panorámica de Roma
  • 1948
  • Oil on canvas
  • 87 x 184 cm

From his studio in the Academy, Guerrero painted the rooftops of Rome and alleyways of Rome with the backdrop of the Vatican. He produced a heavy, schematic drawing, underlined by a riot of bright, yet delicate colours, a perpetual Sunday, with nuns and priests strolling, nuns with cornettes turned into light, minimal, agile architectural structures, and priests and bishops as anthropomorphic obelisks.

JUSTO NAVARRO