Complex sentence: He was educated in the city of Popayán, and then began his formal study of painting in his nation's capital at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of Bogotá he took lessons from the renowed art teacher Roberto Pizano (1896--1929).
Split into simpler sentences: He was educated in the city of Popayán, and then began his formal study of painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, in the capital Bogotá. He took lessons from the art teacher Roberto Pizano (1896--1929).