BARTOLOME’ ESTEBAN MURILLO 2/3 – The year 1645, was the turning point for Murillo, because he married the socially prominent Beatriz Cabrera y Villalobos, and he received his first important commission for a Franciscan convent. The year 1656, he had the honor of executing Seville’s largest altarpiece ever (Saint Anthony of Padua). The year 1658, Bartolomè Esteban Murillo followed the rest of Spain’s most important painters, on their way to Madrid, where he had the opportunity to study the royal collections as well as Velázquez’s paintings. In his early paintings, he employs lighting techniques, contrasting a dark, relatively abstract background with strongly illuminated figures in the foreground.
BARTOLOME’ ESTEBAN MURILLO 3/3 – Throughout the 1660s, the honors just kept accumulating for this painter, the only Spanish painter whose works were well-known outside of Spain. The year 1680, he received a commission to paint the main altarpiece for the Capuchins church in Cádiz. Murillo’s mature style evidences a syrupy sweetness most akin to the early pioneer of the Italian Baroque. While he working high up on a scaffold: Murillo fell. He died after a few months of terrible pain, and was buried into the Cathedral of Seville in front of his favorite painting, the same burial place as Christopher Columbus.
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