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View all 194 artworks. Bartolome Esteban Murillo lived in the XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Spanish Baroque. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Spanish
- December 31, 1617
- Seville, Spain
- April 3, 1682
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 ...
Murillo's first famous cycle of paintings was produced for the cloister of the convent of San Francisco in Seville (1645). There followed paintings for the cathedral (1658), and a celebrated series for the church of the Caridad (1667-70), including the National Gallery's 'Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda'.
In Baroque Spain, artists were more than painters or sculptors, in the eyes of the faithful, they had the power to make the sacred real; and in Seville, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was known as the greatest religious painter of his age.
- Spanish
- April 3, 1682
- Seville, Spain
April 3, 1682, Sevilla. Movement / Style: Baroque art and architecture. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (baptized January 1, 1618, Sevilla, Spain—died April 3, 1682, Sevilla) was the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th-century Spain, noted for his idealized, sometimes precious manner.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Title: Virgin and Child. Artist: Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (Spanish, Seville 1617–1682 Seville) Date: 1670s. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 65 1/4 x 43 in. (165.7 x 109.2 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1943. Accession Number: 43.13. European Paintings at The Met.
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The Crucifixion. Bartolomé Estebán Murillo Spanish. ca. 1675. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 624. This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
