{"id":18473,"date":"2017-09-29T01:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18473"},"modified":"2017-09-29T01:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:13:51","slug":"the-art-of-rafael-romero-calvet-1885-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/09\/29\/the-art-of-rafael-romero-calvet-1885-1925\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Rafael Romero Calvet, 1885\u20131925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent picture research turned up another illustrator whose work I hadn&#8217;t seen before. Rafael Romero Calvet was Spanish, and the dates above aren&#8217;t necessarily accurate (he may have been born in 1884). He did die young, however, and probably too soon to make more of an impact outside the magazines he was working for. The covers here are all from <em>Los Contempor\u00e1neos<\/em>, a Spanish publication that ran from 1909 to 1926. Many of Calvet&#8217;s covers\u2014dating from 1909\u20131910\u2014are grotesque and macabre enough to suit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2016\/12\/30\/covers-for-der-orchideengarten\/\"><em>Der Orchideengarten<\/em><\/a>, although that magazine wouldn&#8217;t be launched for another ten years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more of Calvet&#8217;s work at <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Rafael_Romero_Calvet\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collectorsweekly.com\/stories\/153673-las-flores-del-mal-the-flowers-of-evil\" target=\"_blank\">this feature<\/a> at Collectors Weekly has a glimpse of his cover for Baudelaire&#8217;s <em>Les Fleurs du Mal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"calvet16.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/calvet16.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-illustrators-archive\/\">The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent picture research turned up another illustrator whose work I hadn&#8217;t seen before. Rafael Romero Calvet was Spanish, and the dates above aren&#8217;t necessarily accurate (he may have been born in 1884). He did die young, however, and probably too soon to make more of an impact outside the magazines he was working for. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/09\/29\/the-art-of-rafael-romero-calvet-1885-1925\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of Rafael Romero Calvet, 1885\u20131925&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48,43],"tags":[2346,540,9104],"class_list":["post-18473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-magazines","tag-charles-baudelaire","tag-der-orchideengarten","tag-rafael-romero-calvet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4NX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}