The masterpiece of the colourful picto-poetic gallery of don Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor

Abstract

Don Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor, in his Décima (stupendous poetic painting), succeeds in showing in verse the profound sense of the Latin locutions ut pictura poesis and concordi lumine maior and, at the same time, elevating the human beauty of his lady to celestial magnificence thanks to singular pictorial nuances accompanied by neoPetrarchan descriptive taste. A perfect representation of the genre of the portrait 'a lo divino' in poetry, this decima is more than a palette of colours: it is a jewel that unites art and literature.