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Bartolomé Román
The Archangel Specialist In the bustling workshops of Madrid, a specific kind of devotion takes shape through oil and canvas. Bartolomé Román, born in Montoro, Córdoba, around 1587, moves through the Spanish Baroque not as a generalist, but as a specialist of the celestial. His hands find their rhythm in the depiction of the Seven Archangels, a thematic focus that would define his legacy and carry his imagery across the Atlantic to the
Americas. He is a painter of the divine hierarchy, translating the spiritual into the tangible through a style that blends Venetian spatial concepts with the heavy influence of Flemish and Venetian traditions. His early career is marked by a complex relationship with his supposed teacher, Vicente Carducho. While historical records from 1614 suggest a legal dispute between the two, the brushwork tells a different story. By 1616, his sig…