Murillo at the Museum

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Murillo lived through a time when the monastic orders used to take painters under protection. This happened to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo with the Franciscans. For them and for his church, located outside the city walls, Murillo made up to 20 paintings.

For the first time, the altarpiece that Murillo made between 1665 and 1670 for the Franciscans of the Capuchin Convent can be seen in its entirety.

Considered without a doubt, one of his masterpieces. In addition to the series of paintings that he made for the main nave of the church. Although the exhibition has already ended, we will be able to see most of the works that the Sevillian genius conceived for the church of the Convent, in addition to other works by Murillo The Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne has donated for the occasion the main canvas of the main altarpiece, The Jubilee of the Porziuncola, which left Seville in the mid-19th century.

Discover with GuiArte the history of each painting, the painter's intentions and the details and secrets hidden in these wonderful works.

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