biography
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Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban
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pronunciation:
[mooreelyoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1618–82)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Seville, SW Spain. In 1645 he painted 11 remarkable pictures for the convent of San Francisco, which made his name. He founded the Academy of Seville (1660), of which he became first president. He frequently chose the Immaculate Conception or the Assumption of the Virgin as a subject, and treated them much alike. His pictures naturally fall into two groups - scenes from low life, such as gipsies and beggar children (mostly early works), and religious paintings. In 1681 he fell from a scaffold when painting an altarpiece at Cadiz, and died soon after. |
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