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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.
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.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (born 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 paintings of contemporary women and children.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Spanish Painter. Born: 1617 - Seville, Spain. Died: April 3, 1682 - Seville, Spain. Movements and Styles: Baroque Art and Architecture.
1617 - 1682. Image: Detail from Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Self Portrait, about 1670. Murillo was the leading painter in Seville in the later 17th century. He remained one of the most admired and popular of all European artists in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Murillo’s many depictions of the Virgin and Child were enormously successful: he endowed a conventional Catholic subject with newfound intimacy through soft modeling and naturalistic details such as this infant’s momentary diversion of attention from nursing, as if in response to the viewer’s presence.
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban. Sevilla, 1617 - Sevilla, 1682. Murillo was apparently a calm and sweet natured man, a fact which might explain some aspects of his personal artistic expression. Born into a family of many siblings, he was orphaned as a child and taken in by one of his sisters.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women...
'The painter, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, contrasted the saint's humble presence with a brilliant, spiritual vision and a miracle he performed during his lifetime. Murillo...
The Immaculate Conception. Ca. 1665. Oil on canvas. Not on display. The colours of the Virgin’s tunic and cloak, her loose hair, hands crossed on her breast, her devoted gaze raised to heaven and the presence of the moon are elements of the imagery of the Immaculate Conception.
