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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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3 boys
mk284 Oil on canvas 168 x 110 cm more than Dulwich Gallery in London
Painting ID:: 62605
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3_boys
mk284 Oil on canvas 168 x 110 cm more than Dulwich Gallery in London
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Is pursuing a flea boy
mk284 Oil on canvas 1648 137 x 115 cm Paris, Louvre Tibet
Painting ID:: 62606
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Is_pursuing_a_flea_boy
mk284 Oil on canvas 1648 137 x 115 cm Paris, Louvre Tibet
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Boys laugh at woman
mk284 Oil on canvas 1660 - 1665 Oil on canvas 147 x 107 cm Gloucestershire National Trust Center for possession of
Painting ID:: 62607
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Boys_laugh_at_woman
mk284 Oil on canvas 1660 - 1665 Oil on canvas 147 x 107 cm Gloucestershire National Trust Center for possession of
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Children to eat dessert
mk284 Oil on canvas 1675 - 1680 Oil on canvas 123 x 102 cm National Museum in Munich
Painting ID:: 62608
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Children_to_eat_dessert
mk284 Oil on canvas 1675 - 1680 Oil on canvas 123 x 102 cm National Museum in Munich
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Prodigal Son
mk284 Oil on canvas 1668 236 x 262 cm National Gallery Washington
Painting ID:: 62609
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Prodigal_Son
mk284 Oil on canvas 1668 236 x 262 cm National Gallery Washington
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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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