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Title: Famous painters and paintings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897
Subjects: Painters Painting
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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taste and fashion. In 1660 tlie Academyof Seville was founded by him, but he filled the officeof President only during the first year. In early life Murillo painted many pictures illustra-tive of humble life, in which the manner was darkerand less refined than that of his later pictures, whichare mostly Scriptural or religious subjects. In his firststyle the outline was decided, if not hard, and the treat-ment of lights and shadows reminds one of Zurbaranor Caravaggio. Later he adopted a softer outline anda more mellow coloring. The style which is most char-acteristic of his celebrated works combines softnessand vigor with the finest coloring. His style has beensaid to hold a middle rank between the unpolishednaturalness of the Flemish and the ideal grace andgrandeur of the Italian school. The Dulwich Gallery is rich in fine works by thismaster; among them is the celebrated Flower Girl.Admirable specimens of his Beggar Boys are in thePinakothek at )\Iunich. In Enoland and the Louvi-e
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THE NEW YORK ASTOH. LENOX 1617.) MURILLO. 193 are about forty of his works. A picture in the LondonNational Gallery representing the Son between theVirgin and St. Joseph, with the Father in the cloudsabove, may be regarded as a fair example of Murilloscharacteristic qualities. It was painted for the familyof tlie Marquis de Pedrosa, and was purchased by theEnglish government in 1837. The Immaculate Con-ception, in the Louvre, is a picture which strongly dis-plays his characteristic excellences. He painted agreat many pictures of this subject; for those in whichthe Virgin is represented with dark hair he is said tohaAe taken his daughter Francisca as a model. Among them all there are not two exactly alike. Hedid not adhere strictly to the rules which were fur-nished by ecclesiastical authority for the proper rep-resentation of this subject. The Virgin was to berepresented as very youthful, with golden hair, and with all the beauty painting can express ; her handsfolded upon her bosom o

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