Seville

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Seville 1640-1660
Economic collapse governments ruinous fiscal
policies decline in silver from New
World population decline reduced by 50 by
bubonic plague of 1649 uprising of the poor and
famished patrons (religious institutions) in
decline new religious mood charity, piety
artistic taste devotional pictures
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F. Zurbaran stays but declines Mass production
to the New World, shipments, workshop
assistants Herrera tries to paint in the new
styles but ends up leaving for Madrid
Herrera the Elder
St. Joseph and the Christ Child, 1645, o/c, 165 x
115 cm
New devotional style quiet, sentimental art at
the cost of the original rough-hewn realism.

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Alonso Cano
Immaculate Conception 1648Oil on
canvasProvincial Museum, Vitoria
The Visitation O/c. Cathedral of Granada. Spain.
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Alonso Cano
"Christ supported by Angel 1646-52
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo High Baroque
style
Angels Kitchen 1646, o/c 180 x 450 cm Louvre
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Murillos success Patrons foreign and
mercantile class
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Bartolomé E. MURILLO
Inmaculate Coception (The Colossal) o/c436 x
297 cm.
Pacheco 1620
Ribera 1635
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
1647-1654 for home altars
Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Madonna and Child..
Madonna of the Rosary
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Serious competitor Herrera the younger, from
Madrid Herrera brings the new talent, the
capitals accomplishments and becomes the
influence on Seville painters
Francisco Herrera the Younger Triumph of St.
Hermenegild 1654 328 x 229 cm Pardo, Madrid
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Francisco Herrera the Younger
Murillo Vision of St Anthony of Padua 1656,
o/c 560 x 369 cm Seville cathedral
Stigmatization of St. Francis, 1657 o/c 570 x
363 cm Seville cathedral
New standard
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Herrera the Younger new standard dynamic
composition, sketchy, feathery technique, freedom
of brushstroke, rich, soft colors, complicated
poses Murillo and Zurbaran go learn it in
Madrid Murillo is successful
Murillo (after Madrid)
Birth of the Virgin 1660, o/c, 184 x 260 cm,
Louvre
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Murillo Birth of the Virgin, details 1660, o/c,
184 x 260 cm, Louvre
Changes- abandons hard edged technique
adopts open, sketchy brushwork soft light,
figures dissolve into tender mood narrowing gap
between heaven and earth
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One competitor- Juan de Valdez Leal
1657-59Oil on canvas, 56 x 43 cmPrivate
collection
Virgin of the Immaculate Conception with Sts
Andrew and John the Baptist1650-52, Oil on
canvas, 234 x 167 cmMusée du Louvre, Paris

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Juan de Valdez Leal
Heavy influence from Herrera Younger
Assumption of the Virgin1659Oil on
canvasNational Gallery of Art, Washington
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Juan de Valdez Leal
Ascension of Elijahc. 1658Oil on canvas, 567 x
508 cmaltarpiece for the convent of the Carmen
Calzado, Córdoba
explosive theatricality (red, orange yellow)
v.
cool, placid landscape (blues and greens)
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Andalusia 1660-1700 Seville, Granada,
Málaga Recovery
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Alonso Cano
The Annunciation 1660 (new technique from Madrid)
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
MURILLOSt. Francis Embracing the Crucified 1668
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1660 Murillo co-founded the Academy of Seville of
which he was the first president.
Self-portrait 1670
Nicolas de Ormazu 167 o/c, 83 x 73 cm
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Young Boys playing
dice c. 1665-75 154 x 108 cm, Alte Minakothek
Munich
The Beggar Boy. c. 1650. Oil on canvas.
Louvre, Paris, France.
A boy with a dog
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Peter von Laer
Four Peasants
The Mora Players
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
Grape and Melon Eaters. c. 1650. Oil on canvas
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The Little Fruit
Seller. c. 1670-1675. Oil on canvas. Alte
Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The Good Shepherd.
c. 1660. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado
Infant Christ Offering a Drink of Water to St
John1675-80Oil on canvas, 104 x 124 cmMuseo
del Prado, Madrid
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Murillo Landscape, 1680, Oil on canvas, Museo
del Prado
Jos de Momper, Landscape with figures 1620?
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.
Virgin with child 1670
Virgin and child with a rosary, 1665
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Murillo
Virgin and Child1675-80Pen and brown ink with
brown wash, 21.4 x 15.4 cmMuseum of Art,
Cleveland
o/c, 163 x 109 cm
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Brotherhood of Charity, Seville
Bartolomé Esteban MurilloThe Return of the
Prodigal Son, 1667/1670
The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1667/1670
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1667/167
Rembrandt, 1662
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Brotherhood of Charity, Seville
Juan de Valdes Leal
In Ictu Oculi 1670-72 o/c, 220 x 216 cm
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Brotherhood of Charity, Seville
Juan de Valdes Leal
Finis Gloriae Mundi 1670-72, o/c 220 x 216 cm
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Murillo Immaculate Conception 1665-70 206 x 144
cm
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Valdez Leal
Immaculate Conception 1665-70, 200 x 315 cm