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Étiqueté : Murillo

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Parutions

Parution : Guillaume Kientz, “Murillo From Heaven to Earth”, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2022

A revealing exploration of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s genre paintings and the cultural significance of his depictions of ordinary people Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) is best known for his religious subject matter, yet some of his most iconic works depict secular themes. Celebrating Murillo’s genre paintings and shedding new light on the innovative portrayals of beggars, street urchins, and flower girls in the artist’s culturally rich narratives of youth and age, romance and seduction, and faith...

À l'étranger / Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Expositions

Exposition : « El Hijo pródigo de Murillo y el arte de narrar en el Barroco andaluz », Madrid, Museo del Prado, jusqu’au 23 janvier 2022

Durante las décadas centrales del siglo XVII se produjeron en Andalucía un tipo de cuadros muy representativos tanto del alto nivel creativo alcanzado por los principales pintores, como de las expectativas y el gusto de una de las partes más activas de su clientela. Se trata de obras organizadas en series, en su mayoría de mediano tamaño y encargadas por personajes particulares para interiores domésticos u oratorios privados.  En ellas se desarrolla una “historia” de...

Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’art de la Renaissance / Parutions

Parution : Benito Navarrete Prieto, Murillo, Persuasion and Aura, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019

This book examines how Murillo constructed his paintings and the devices he employed to provoke responses in the viewer, both then and now. Murillo has attracted particular attention from historians since the seventeenth century to the present day, though opinions of his oeuvre have varied from period to period. The communicative power of his paintings, both then and now, has led him to be used and exploited for different ends. He deliberately cultivated this quality...