Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
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SpainHe painted saints and Madonnas for Spanish altars, but what sets Murillo apart is the parallel body of work: street kids, beggars, flower sellers — everyday Seville rendered unsentimental and exact. The Baroque piety paid the bills; the genre scenes became his signature.
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was baptised in Seville on 1 January 1618 and spent his career there through the height of the Spanish Baroque. While religious commissions formed the core of his output, he devoted substantial energy to contemporary life — lively, realistic portraits of women and children from the city's lower ranks that now constitute an extensive record of 17th-century Spanish daily existence. He painted himself twice: once in his thirties, now in the Frick Collection, and again roughly twenty years later, held by London's National Gallery. In 2017–18, the two institutions mounted…
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