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Seville Museum of Fine Arts

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Front view of the façade of the Seville Museum of Fine Arts © Turespaña
Room at the Seville Museum of Fine Arts © Turespaña
Room at the Seville Museum of Fine Arts © Turespaña
Pietro Torrigiano. 'Saint Jerome'. Seville Museum of Fine Arts © Turespaña

A great legacy

Set in the old Merced Calzada Convent, which dates from the beginning of the 17th century, its collection includes works that go from the Gothic period through to the 20th century.

The Seville Museum of Fine Art's collection has come together over its history, thanks mainly to ecclesiastical items that have been sold off, private donations and public acquisitions. It has numerous rooms where you can see brilliant works by artists such as El Greco, Pacheco, Velázquez and Alonso Cano, amongst others. In the exhibition, special mention should be made of the area dedicated to Murillo and to the Seville school of the 17th century. Also outstanding are the religious paintings by Zurbarán.

Essential works

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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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Death of the maestro

This represents the culmination of a series of paintings on the theme of bullfighting. It introduces a singular aspect to this genre, which is to conceive the subject in the form of a large-scale historical painting.
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The Virgin of Las Cuevas

Throughout his career as a painter, Francisco de Zurbarán was commissioned to paint large works in his workshop for various monastic orders. This is an example.
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The cigar girls

This is probably the most famous and best loved of Gonzalo Bilbao's paintings on social themes.
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The temptations of Saint Jerome

The temptations of Saint Jerome is considered to be one of the best versions of this theme in European Baroque painting.
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Portrait of Don Cristóbal Suárez de Ribera

Together with the painting entitled Head of apostle, this is the only work by Diego Velázquez conserved in the museum.
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Portrait of his son Jorge Manuel

This excellent portrait by El Greco is also a unique and outstanding work within the artist's production, as it is an important testimony to his family life.
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Saint Hugh in the refectory

Zurbarán received several major commissions from various monastic orders. This is one of a series of paintings for the Carthusian order.
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Saint Jerome penitent

This life-size work is outstanding for the expressiveness of the head and the splendid study of the nude which reveals the sculptor's knowledge of anatomy.
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Saint James the Elder

This work is outstanding for the skilled use of light and the strong modelling of the drawing, in which Ribera's mastery of the engraving technique was clearly fundamental.
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Collections

The museum's collection is part of the collective catalogue of the Digital Network of Spanish Museum Collections (CERES), conceived as a space for dissemination which enables visitors to browse the various museum collections using the identifying features of each item (author, type of object, iconography, etc.).

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