On January 1st, 1618, Bartolome Esteban Murillo was born in Seville Spain. Murillo was the most famous Spanish Baroque painter of his time, known for his religious works. Murillo was the youngest of fourteen children, born to Gaspar Esteban, a barber, and María Perez . Murillo gained his surname from a traditional Andalusian custom, taking the name of his grandmother, Elvira Murillo. In 1627, Murillo’s father passed away, and his mother died a year later. Murillo was an orphan at ten years old, and
Seville Spanish SEVILLA, ancient Hispalis, city and capital of the provincia of Seville, in the Andalusia comunidad autónoma ("autonomous community") of southern Spain. Seville lies on the left (east) bank of the Guadalquivir River at a point about 54 miles (87 km) north of the Atlantic, and about 340 miles (550 km) southwest of Madrid. An inland port, it is the chief city of Andalusia and the fourth largest in Spain. It was important in history as a cultural centre, as a capital of Muslim Spain
The Immaculate Conception of El Escolar is an oil on canvas masterpiece by the Spanish master Bartolome Esteban Murillo. Its creation date is estimated around the 1660s during the Baroque period. The Baroque period in art is characterized by heavy influences and themes of the Catholic and religious kind. The prominence of religious themes and emphasis is attributed to the period when the Catholic Church used art a form of retaliation and propaganda against the Counter-Reformation in Europe. A lot
painters of Seville for his quiet intensity. Zurbarán worked almost exclusively for monastic orders and his most impressive baroque compositions are deeply moving for their direct and realistic approach to religious subject matter. The work of Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) is the most cosmopolitan, as well as accessible, of any Spanish Baroque artist. His “Virgin and Child” (1675-1680) unites the influence of the Northern artists and Italians in an image that nevertheless retains an unmistakably