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Pedro Nel Gmez Agudelo was a Colombian engineer, painter, and sculptor, best known for his work as a muralist, and for starting, along with Santiago Martinez Delgado, the Colombian Muralist Movement, inspired by the Mexican movement that drew on nationalistic, social, and political messages as subjects.

Pedro Nel was born onJuly 1889 in Anor, Antioquia, to Jess Gmez Gonzlez and Mara Luisa Agudelo Garcs. He attended the Academia de Bellas Artes de Medelln, where he completed his secondary studies in 1917, he then attended College of Mines of Medelln where he graduated in Civil Engineering in 1922. In 1925 he travels to Europe and settles in Florence, Italy, where he attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. While in Italy he meets his future wife, and mother of his eight children, the Florentine Giuliana Scalaberni. In 1930 he returns to Colombia, and becomes Director and professor of the Academia de Bellas Artes de Medelln.

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