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[[Image:Murillo.jpg|thumb|right|Murillo - detail from his ''Self-portrait'' (1670-1672), National Gallery, London]]
'''Bartolomé Esteban Murillo''' (Seville, Spain, ca. 1617 - Seville, Spain, 1682) was a [[Spanish]] [[Baroque]] religious painter. To learn painting, he copied works by artists including [[Peter Paul Rubens]] and [[Antony van Dyck]]. Murillo mainly devoted himself to religious subjects; the Virgin theme alone was represented about twenty times by Murillo. He is one of the most famous painter of the [[Golden Age of Spanish Painting|Spanish Golden Age]] along with [[El Greco]], [[Diego Velazquez]], [[Francisco de Zurbarán]] and [[José de Ribera]]. Murillo had an important influence in America's Spanish colonies painting. Among his chief patrons were the religious orders, especially the Franciscans, and the confraternities in Sevilla (Seville) and Andalusia.<ref>[http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/398128/Bartolome-Esteban-Murillo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.]</ref> 
  
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Murillo was one of the most famous artists in all of Europe, far more famous even than Velázquez. Murillo's paintings were considered the triumph of the Spanish Baroque. He is best known as the painter of sweetness and light.<ref>[http://www.artble.com/artists/bartolome_esteban_murillo Bartolome Esteban Murillo.]</ref> 
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In the 1650s a striking transformation of style occurred, usually attributed to a visit to Madrid, where Murillo undoubtedly met Velázquez and studied the works of [[Titian]], Rubens, and Van Dyck in the royal collections. The softly modeled forms, rich colours, and broad brushwork replaced his early realism and tenebrism (contrasting light and shade). [[Ibidem]]
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The [[Paul Getty Museum]] describes how "the market for Bartolomé Estebán Murillo's pictures was so large and lucrative that the [[king]] (of Spain) refused to allow their export from the country. In 1660 Murillo founded and served as president of the Seville Academy. Today, in Spain a good painting is called a Murillo." <ref>[http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=3009&page=1 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo] J. [[Paul Getty Museum]], Los Angeles.</ref>

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[[Image:Murillo Inmaculada de El Escorial.jpg|thumb|200px|''Inmaculada Concepción de El Escorial'' (1660-1665), Museo del Prado, Madrid]]

== Gallery ==

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File:Murillo, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1667 1670.jpg|''The Return of the Prodigal Son'', 1667-1670, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Image:Murillo The Vision of St. Francis of Paola.jpg|''The Vision of Saint Francis of Paola'' (c. 1670), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.
Image:Murillo La Asunción de la Virgen.jpg|''La Asunción de la Virgen'' (1670), The [[State Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]], St. Petersburg.
Image:Murillo Dolorosa.jpg|''Dolorosa'' (c. 1665), Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla.
File:MurilloThe Little Fruit Seller 1670 1675.jpg|''The Little Fruit Seller'' (c. 1670-1675), Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
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Image:BEM-grapes.jpg|''Beggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon'' (c. 1645-1655), Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
File:Murillo Two Women at a Window.jpg|''Two Women at a Window.'' ca. 1655/1660, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
File:Murillo - Adoration of the Magi.jpg|Adoration of the Magi, 1655-1660, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, United States.
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Assumption of the Virgin, ca. 1678, Museo del Prado.
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== See also ==
[[Image:Murillo Saint Michael Banishes the Devil to the Abyss.jpg|thumb|Saint Michael Banishes the Devil to the Abyss, (1665-1668), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.]]
*[[Painting Masterpieces]]
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Francisco de Zurbarán]]
*[[Golden Age of Spanish Painting]]
*[[Mexican Painting]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/murillo_bartolome_esteban.html Murillo at Artcyclopedia] 
*[http://search.famsf.org:8080/search.shtml?artist=murillo 7 works by Bartolome Esteban Murillo] Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
*[http://www.purisimaconcepcion.agenciacatolica.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=21 La Inmaculada y el arte] In Spanish.

[[File:Bartolome Esteban Murillo, The Holy Family, 1665-1670.jpg|thumb|left|The Holy Family, 1665-1670.]]
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