Julio Escámez

Julio Escámez Carrasco (November 15, 1925 – December 23, 2015) was a Chilean painter, engraver and muralist. His work includes numerous frescoes, oil paintings and engravings (lithography, woodcut and etching) produced both in Chile and abroad.

He also designed scenography and made costumes for various ballet works, and had an outstanding career as a book illustrator from diverse writers, including the poet Pablo Neruda, whom he met personally.

Along with other renowned painters such as Gregorio de la Fuente, with whom he collaborated in his youth for the creation of the mural ''Historia de Concepción'', he belonged to the school of muralists of Chile. Provided by Wikipedia