Pedro Nel Gómez

Pedro Nel Gómez Agudelo
Self portrait, 1949 oil on canvas 95,5 x 72 cm
Born	(1899-07-04)4 July 1899 Anorí, Antioquia, Colombia
Died	6 June 1984(1984-06-06) (aged 84) Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Education	Academia de Bellas Artes de Medellín Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
Alma mater	Faculty of Minas
Known for	Muralism
Movement	Mexican Mural Movement
Spouse	Giuliana Scalaberni (1927—1964)

One of Colombia's most prolific and prominent artists of his time, Gómez created 2,200 square meters of fresco murals in public buildings.^{[citation needed]}

Pedro Nel was born on 4 July 1899 in Anorí, Antioquia, to Jesús Gómez González and María Luisa Agudelo Garcés. He attended the Academia de Bellas Artes de Medellín, where he completed his secondary studies in 1917. He then attended College of Mines of Medellín where he graduated in Civil Engineering in 1922. In 1923 he decided to move to Bogotá, where aside from working as an engineer and professor, he studied perspective and artistic anatomy with Francisco Antonio Cano. In 1925 he traveled to Europe and settled in Florence, Italy, where he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. While in Italy he met his future wife, and mother of his eight children, the Florentine, Giuliana Scalaberni. In 1930 he returned to Colombia, and became Director and professor of the Academia de Bellas Artes de Medellín.

As a teacher Nel Gómez has an impact in inspiring a future generation of nationalist artists including Carlos Correa and Débora Arango.

In 2019 the National Museum of Colombia held a retrospective of his work, entitled Pedro Nel Gómez: Relatos de una Nación (Testament of a Nation).

• Bedoya de Flórez, Fabiola; Estrada Betancur, David Fernando (2003). Pedro Nel Gómez: Muralista (in Spanish). Medellín, ANT: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia. ISBN 9789586555784. OCLC 250284235.
• Arango Gómez, Diego León; Fernández Uribe, Carlos Arturo (2006). Pedro Nel Gómez: Acuarelista (in Spanish). Medellín, ANT: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia. ISBN 9789586558457. OCLC 174958556.
• Arango Gómez, Diego León; Fernández Uribe, Carlos Arturo (2007). Pedro Nel Gómez: Escultor (in Spanish). Medellín, ANT: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia. ISBN 9789586558464. OCLC 300525522.

• Pedro Nel Gómez: Relatos de una Nación at Colombian National Museum