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 San Seta oil


San Seta
Painting ID::  62635
San Seta
mk284 Oil on canvas 1660 251 x 171 cm Dallas Museum of Modern Art
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo Santa Fei-Na oil


Santa Fei-Na
Painting ID::  62636
Santa Fei-Na
mk284 Oil on canvas 1660 251 x 171 cm Dallas Museum of Modern Art
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo San Seta and St. Lucie Princess Na oil


San Seta and St. Lucie Princess Na
Painting ID::  62637
San Seta and St. Lucie Princess Na
mk284 Oil on canvas 1665 - 1666 200 x 176 cm Fine Arts Museum Seville
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo San robe given saint, Wheelock Faso oil


San robe given saint, Wheelock Faso
Painting ID::  62638
San robe given saint, Wheelock Faso
mk284 Oil on canvas 1650 - 1655 309 x 261 cm Madrid, Museo del Prado
   
   
     

Bartolome Esteban Murillo St. Augustine oil


St. Augustine
Painting ID::  62639
St. Augustine
mk284 Oil on canvas 251 x 171 cm Madrid personal possession of
   
   
     

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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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