Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville, 1618 - Cadiz, April 3rd 1682), Spanish painter .

Biography

The last of fourteen children, it loses his father, a modest barber-surgeon, at the fourteen years age and is collected by one of his/her brothers-in-law who places it in 1630 in training at Juan Del Castillo, a poor italianizing artist who teaches painting to him. It meets towards 1640 a pupil of Van Dyck of the name of Pedro de Moya who initiates it with the Flemish technique. It Marie the February 26th 1645.

Its Vierge of the Rosary of 1645 is the oldest work which is allotted to him. The franciscains of Seville place to him order of a series of eleven tables the same year. These paintings are dispersed today. In 1658, it makes a stay with Madrid where it is subject to the influence of the tenebrism of Zurbarán and of Ribera.

It founds and chairs in 1660 the academy of the fine arts of Seville. April 3rd 1682, it falls of a scaffolding whereas it paints a retable with the convent of the capuchins of Cadiz. He dies shortly after.

Murillo was redécouvert at the 19th century when one regarded it as the typical representative of the Spanish art of his time, and the precursor of the realism of the 18th Spanish century. Napoleon III will make buy several of its tables which currently appear in the collections of the Musée of Louvre.

Works

the Virgin of the Rosary (1645 - 1650), Museum of Prado, Madrid
San Diego de Alcala de Henares in extase in front of the cross (1645 - 1646) - Museum of Augustins, Toulouse
the Young Beggar (1645 - 1650), Museum of Louvre, Paris
Junipero Brother and poor the (1646), Museum of Louvre, Paris
kitchen of the Angels ( 1646), Museum of Louvre, Paris
Boy and dog (1655 - 1660), Museum of the Hermitage, Saint-Petersbourg
Young girl with fruits and flowers (1655 - 1660), Museum Pouchkine, Moscow
Small farmer with the balcony (1670 - 1680), National Gallery, London
Ninos comiendo pastel (1670 - 1675), old art gallery of Munich
Ecce Homo , museum of the Art schools of Cadiz
the escape in Egypt , museum of the palazzo Rosso of Genoa, Italy

External bonds

Murillo in Artcyclopedia

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