Miquel Torner de Semir is a Catalan painter drawn to the art of the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. His influences and tastes also include Romanesque and Gothic. He received artistic training at the School of Fine Arts in Sant Jordi and the San Fernando School in Madrid. Miquel Torner was a disciple of the muralist and engraver Ricard Marlet, with him he learned the discipline of drawing and learned about movements such as Modernism and Catalan New Centism.

His first individual exhibition was in 1968 in Terrassa, then he exhibited in other Spanish cities, in Paris, and in Europe. Miquel Torner became one of the best-known representatives of Mediterranean painting. In his works he mixed the classic with the new, an e...