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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (born late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618 – April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children.
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (* 1. Januar 1618 in Sevilla,...
- The Virgin of The Rosary
The virgin sits in a vibrant red dress on a deep blue shawl,...
- The Assumption of The Virgin
The Assumption of The Virgin - Bartolome Esteban Murillo -...
- The Little Fruit-Seller
The Little Fruit-Seller - Bartolome Esteban Murillo - 194...
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Although Murillo’s subjects were often religious, he also produced many genre paintings of ordinary contemporary life. He depicted the street children of Seville in Grape and Melon Eaters (c. 1645) and glimpses of the aristocracy from the street in Two Women at a Window (c. 1655/1660).
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (/ m j ʊəˈr ɪ l oʊ, m (j) ʊ ˈ r iː oʊ / mure-IL-oh, m(y)uu-REE-oh, Spanish: [baɾtoloˈme esˈteβam muˈɾiʎo]; late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618 – April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of ...
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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
The Blessed Giles Levitating before Pope Gregory IX Bartolome Esteban Murillo • 1645-1646
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. 1617 - 1682. Image: Detail from Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Self Portrait, about 1670. Murillo was the leading painter in Seville in the later 17th century. He remained one of the most admired and popular of all European artists in the 18th and early 19th centuries. His early works were much influenced by the early ...
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Many of his earlier paintings were portraits of Franciscan saints, executed for the Franciscan monastery in Seville, but he went on to produce many works of a more general religious nature.
