Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Spanish 1618-1682 Bartolome Esteban Murillo Galleries Murillo began his art studies under Juan del Castillo in Seville. Murillo became familiar with Flemish painting; the great commercial importance of Seville at the time ensured that he was also subject to influences from other regions. His first works were influenced by Zurbaran, Jusepe de Ribera and Alonso Cano, and he shared their strongly realist approach. As his painting developed, his more important works evolved towards the polished style that suited the bourgeois and aristocratic tastes of the time, demonstrated especially in his Roman Catholic religious works. In 1642, at the age of 26 he moved to Madrid, where he most likely became familiar with the work of Velazquez, and would have seen the work of Venetian and Flemish masters in the royal collections; the rich colors and softly modeled forms of his subsequent work suggest these influences. He returned to Seville in 1645. In that year, he painted thirteen canvases for the monastery of St. Francisco el Grande in Seville which gave his reputation a well-deserved boost. Following the completion of a pair of pictures for the Seville Cathedral, he began to specialise in the themes that brought him his greatest successes, the Virgin and Child, and the Immaculate Conception. After another period in Madrid, from 1658 to 1660, he returned to Seville. Here he was one of the founders of the Academia de Bellas Artes (Academy of Art), sharing its direction, in 1660, with the architect, Francisco Herrera the Younger. This was his period of greatest activity, and he received numerous important commissions, among them the altarpieces for the Augustinian monastery, the paintings for Santa Mar??a la Blanca (completed in 1665), and others.


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Bartolome Esteban Murillo Virgin and Child oil


Virgin and Child
Painting ID::  2766
Virgin and Child
1672 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1672_ Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art,_New_York
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo The Holy Children with a Shell oil


The Holy Children with a Shell
Painting ID::  2767
The Holy Children with a Shell
1678 Museo del Prado, Madrid
1678_ Museo_del_Prado,_Madrid
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo The Immaculate Conception of the Escorial oil


The Immaculate Conception of the Escorial
Painting ID::  2768
The Immaculate Conception of the Escorial
c1678 Museo del Prado, Madrid
c1678_ Museo_del_Prado,_Madrid
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo Assumption of the Virgin oil


Assumption of the Virgin
Painting ID::  2769
Assumption of the Virgin
c1678 Museo del Prado, Madrid
c1678_ Museo_del_Prado,_Madrid
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo Boys Eating Fruit oil


Boys Eating Fruit
Painting ID::  2770
Boys Eating Fruit
1670 Pinakothek, Munich
1670_ Pinakothek,_Munich
   
   
     

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     Spanish 1618-1682 Bartolome Esteban Murillo Galleries Murillo began his art studies under Juan del Castillo in Seville. Murillo became familiar with Flemish painting; the great commercial importance of Seville at the time ensured that he was also subject to influences from other regions. His first works were influenced by Zurbaran, Jusepe de Ribera and Alonso Cano, and he shared their strongly realist approach. As his painting developed, his more important works evolved towards the polished style that suited the bourgeois and aristocratic tastes of the time, demonstrated especially in his Roman Catholic religious works. In 1642, at the age of 26 he moved to Madrid, where he most likely became familiar with the work of Velazquez, and would have seen the work of Venetian and Flemish masters in the royal collections; the rich colors and softly modeled forms of his subsequent work suggest these influences. He returned to Seville in 1645. In that year, he painted thirteen canvases for the monastery of St. Francisco el Grande in Seville which gave his reputation a well-deserved boost. Following the completion of a pair of pictures for the Seville Cathedral, he began to specialise in the themes that brought him his greatest successes, the Virgin and Child, and the Immaculate Conception. After another period in Madrid, from 1658 to 1660, he returned to Seville. Here he was one of the founders of the Academia de Bellas Artes (Academy of Art), sharing its direction, in 1660, with the architect, Francisco Herrera the Younger. This was his period of greatest activity, and he received numerous important commissions, among them the altarpieces for the Augustinian monastery, the paintings for Santa Mar??a la Blanca (completed in 1665), and others.

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