He was born in Seville in 1617. In 1633, he began his training in the workshop of Juan del Castillo. His work, along with that of Valdés Leal, marks the latest stage of the Spanish Baroque era and focused on, for the most part, religious themes. He founded a prestigious art school in 1660. He also painted delicate scenes of children and adolescents, as well as portraits. His painting, heavily influenced by Van Dyck, is adapted to Spanish taste and devotion, and he became an artist of great popularity. Murillo's influence on Spanish painting lasted until the 19th century, mainly in Seville. He is currently considered one of the great masters and his paintings are distributed in all the great museums of the world. He died in Cadiz in 1682.
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La Colosal (Immaculate Conception)
In this painting Murillo establishes a new iconographic prototype with representations of great dynamic force and movement.
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Seville Museum of Fine Arts (Seville) -
Virgin with Child (Virgin of the Napkin)
The charm of this wonderful composition is due to Murillo's skill in moving us to piety through his depiction of everyday scenes.
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Seville Museum of Fine Arts (Seville) -
The Stigmatization of Saint Francis
This was Murillo's last commission before his death. It was produced for the convent of the Capuchin friars in Cádiz.
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Cadiz Museum (Cádiz) -
Foundation of Santa María Maggiore in Rome: I. The dream of the Patrician John
This is one of Murillo’s most important pictorial compositions, both for its size and its ambition, and the masterly approach used in the pictorial narration.
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Prado Museum (Madrid) -
The Immaculate Conception of the Venerables, or of Soult
An extraordinary example of Baroque art, because of the loose and firm brushstrokes, a helical composition, the use of light and the feeling of movement.
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Prado Museum (Madrid)
Other highlighted works
- Holy Family with a Bird
- The Good Shepherd
