Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish Baroque painter of religious works and everyday life
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter born in December 1617 and baptized on 1 January 1618 in Seville.[1][2] His fame rests on religious subjects, but he also painted many pictures of women and children from everyday life.[1]
Quick Facts
- Born
- Late December 1617; baptised 1 January 1618
- Birthplace
- Seville, Crown of Castile
- Died
- 3 April 1682
- Field
- Painting, drawing
- Movement
- Spanish Baroque
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
In 1645 he married Beatriz Cabrera y Villalobos and received his first major commission, eleven canvases for the convent of San Francisco in Seville.[3] His period of greatest activity followed, with commissions including altarpieces for the Augustinian monastery and paintings for Santa María la Blanca completed in 1665.[4] Murillo painted two self-portraits, one from about 1650–55 and another from about 1670.[5] The Frick Collection and London's National Gallery co-organized a 2017–18 exhibition of these self-portraits marking the 400th anniversary of his birth.[5][6]
His painting "Two Women at a Window" was featured in a Google Doodle on 29 November 2018.[7] Murillo's initial artistic training took place in Seville under Juan del Castillo, who was both his uncle and godfather.[3]
What the cited sources add
The Frick's exhibition ran from 1 November 2017 to 11 February 2018, then moved to the National Gallery from 28 February to 21 May 2018.[5][6] The CNN article reports that Google described Murillo as having an independent spirit and incorporating Flemish and Venetian influences.[7] The National Gallery states that the exhibition brings together the two self-portraits for the first time in more than three centuries.[6] The engraving was finished and issued in Rome during 1882.[8][9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Murillo: The Self-Portraits (Frick); Murillo: The Self-Portraits (National Gallery) (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Marqués, Manuela B. Mena. "Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban", Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press.; A., "A Dictionary of Spanish Painters", C. O'Neill, 1833, p. 246 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Marqués, Manuela B. Mena. "Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban", Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Santa María la Blanca; Marqués, Manuela B. Mena. "Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban", Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Murillo: The Self-Portraits (Frick). facts only, no text reused. frick.org
- Murillo: The Self-Portraits (National Gallery). facts only, no text reused. nationalgallery.org.uk
- Picheta, "Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish baroque painter, gets the Google Doodle treatment", CNN, 29 November 2018. facts only, no text reused. cnn.com
- Wikipedia, "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Di Bartolo, "Francesco Di Bartolo incisore e la Madonna con putto dal Murillo", OperaeOpera, 12 July 2026 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Di Bartolo, "Francesco Di Bartolo incisore e la Madonna con putto dal Murillo", OperaeOpera, 12 July 2026. facts only, no text reused. operaeopera.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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