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- Murillo immortalized Seville with its lights and its shadows. Paintings such as The Young Beggar, Two Children Eating a Melon and Grapes, Young Boys Playing Dice, Old Woman Delousing a Child, and Three Boys are the pictorial representation of the ideas that circulated in 17th-century Seville about poverty, charity, and love of neighbor.
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th-century Spain, noted for his idealized, sometimes precious manner. Among his chief patrons were the religious orders, especially the Franciscans, and the confraternities in Sevilla (Seville) and Andalusia.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Murillo began his art studies in Seville in the workshop of Juan del Castillo, Murillo's uncle and godfather, as well a skilled painter in his own right. [3] Castillo was characterized by the dryness of his sketches and the loving expressions in the subjects he painted, and Murillo took much of this as inspiration in his early work.
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- The Legacy of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
In December 1617, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was born in Seville, where he would live and work his entire life. Throughout his childhood, Seville remained the foremost city in Spain, equal in power and population to Venice, Amsterdam, or even Madrid. Seville had long held the monopoly on trade with the New World, and despite Spain's near constant wa...
According to Antonio Palomino, in the first biography of the artist published in 1724, Murillo trained with Juan del Castillo, an accomplished if not particularly innovative artist, who was related to his mother. No contract survives, but Castillo probably taught Murillo between 1630 and 1636. Murillo painted his earliest known canvases for the mon...
By the early 1650s, Seville, though still seen as Spain's cosmopolitan and intellectual centre, was no longer its commercial powerhouse. The city had lost its trade monopoly to Cadíz, and a plague had wiped out nearly half its population, a catastrophe followed by famine, recession and trade rebellion. Partly in reaction to this disintegration, Sev...
In January of 1660, Murillo oversaw the inauguration of Seville's new Real Academía de Bellas Artes, becoming its first co-president with Francisco de Herrera the Younger. The school was Spain's first official academy and taught life drawing, as well as painting, sculpture and gilding. As innovative as he was prolific, even at this relatively late ...
In 1682, Murillo began his last commission, a group of canvases for the main altar of the church of the Capuchins in Cadíz. He blocked out each composition, sketching directly onto prepared canvases, which were then installed above the main altar, where he would paint them in situ working from scaffolding. While working on the central, most importa...
Until the late 19th century, Murillo was arguably the most famous artist of all his countrymen outside of Spain. His studio in Seville nurtured succeeding generations of painters, and the most successful - Francisco Meneses Osorio, Juan Simón Guitérrez, Sebastián Gómez, Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio, and Esteban Márquez - promulgated his style, sens...
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- April 3, 1682
- Seville, Spain
Tradition has it that he died as a result of falling from scaffolding when painting the large painting for the altarpiece of the Capuchin monastery in Cádiz in 1682. Murillo enjoyed huge fame in his city of birth, Seville, when he painted there and throughout the 18th century.
His early works were much influenced by the early works of Velázquez, executed before Velázquez left Seville in 1623, and by the paintings of Zurbarán. Murillo's first famous cycle of paintings was produced for the cloister of the convent of San Francisco in Seville (1645).
Jun 30, 2023 · Apart from fulfilling commissions for churches and noblemen’s mansions, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painted genre scenes depicting poor children in their daily tasks. Those paintings, mostly acquired by a foreign clientele, reflect the bitter reality of poverty and exclusion in 17th-century Seville.
Active for most of his artist career in Seville, Murillo was largely known for his religious art, and for his contribution to the Vatican's propaganda campaign of Catholic Counter-Reformation Art, although he also painted many sensitive portraits and studies of Spanish street life.
