Murillo route

Of all the artistic eras of Seville Baroque highlights, perhaps it merges especially with our way of seeing life, and are two Sevillian painters who excel in that special way of looking at reality: Velázquez and Murillo. From naturalism to tenebrista lighting, from iconography to the realism more transparent, all the work of these two great masters is heir to some form of Sevilla of the time. A stroll through the key places will reveal these reminiscences and pictorial atmospheres.

Bartolome Esteban Murillo It is another great Seville Baroque painting. The Museum of Fine Arts (the second gallery in Spain) It has a huge collection of his works. The beautiful square of the museum is presided by his statue. Also at the Hospital de La Caridad you can admire the quality of Murillo, contemplating the paintings adorning its walls.

This itinerary we propose, Sevilla travels of the seventeenth century following the trail of the artist in the landmarks of his biography. A) Yes, haunted buildings or for those who performed some of his most important works, It is able to look them over 50 original paintings and more 80 reproductions.

  1. Casa de Murillo.
    Address: C / Santa Teresa 8, 41004 Sevilla
  2. Seville Cathedral
    Address: Avda. of the Constitution s / n, 41004 Sevilla
  3. Real Alcázar
    Address: Patio de Banderas s / n, 41004 Sevilla
  4. San Bartolomé and La Lonja
    Address: Avda. of the Constitution s / n, 41004 Sevilla - Actual Archivo de Indias
  5. Hospital de la Caridad
    Address: C / Temprado 3, 41001 Sevilla
  6. Convent of San Francisco
    Address: New Square, 41001 Sevilla
  7. Church of La Magdalena
    Address: C / San Pablo 12, 41001
  8. Museum of Fine Arts of Seville
    Address: Museum Square 9, 41001 Sevilla
  9. Chapel of the Expiration Brotherhood of the Museum
    Address: Museum Square 10, 41001 Sevilla
  10. Casa de los Pinelo
    Address: C/Abades 14, 41004 Sevilla
  11. Hospital of The Venerable
    Address: Plaza de Los Venerables 8 , 41004 Sevilla
  12. Plaza Santa Cruz
    Address: Plaza de Santa Cruz, 41004 Sevilla
  13. Church of Santa Maria La Blanca
    Address: C / Santa Maria La Blanca 5, 41004 Sevilla
  14. Plaza de Pozo Santo - San Andrés
    Address: Plaza de Pozo Santo, 41003 Sevilla

Casa de Murillo

Start point, kilometer zero of these routes, It will be the Casa de Murillo (1), at number 8 Street Santa Teresa, housing penultimate teacher and where his workshop was located in the last years of his life.

Address: C / Santa Teresa 8, 41004 Sevilla

Seville Cathedral

Seville Cathedral (2) era, on Murillo times, the most important institution for which an artist could work. Thus, all artists wanted to get a commission from the Cabildo and make his work be dealt with in the interior of the metropolitan temple, nerve center of religious life, cultural and everyday city.

Cathedral preserves some of the most important works of the artist, representative, further, different periods of his creative, since San Isidoro Y San Leandro of its initial stage, a portrait of Venerable Sor Francisca Dorotea, executed in the last decade of his life.

Address: Avda. of the Constitution s / n, 41004 Sevilla

Real Alcázar

Although Murillo did not make any paint Real Alcazar Sevilla (3) , but nevertheless, his artistic production is closely related to the building in which, further, It remains one of his paintings.

Address: Patio de Banderas s / n, 41004 Sevilla

San Bartolomé and La Lonja

The collación Santa Cruz was his residence to 1663, even in his temple the latter baptized their children, which would in his later years. Although he also lived in what is known as San Clemente, It is making him stay resident of figures like Justino de Neve or Miguel de Manara. Another place most frequent during this stage was the Archive of the Indies, so House Lonja (4) .

Murillo's relationship with this building was very close Lonja, since it was installed the headquarters of the pioneer Painting Academy, founded by artist and Francisco Herrera the Younger in the year 1660. The foundation of this Painting Academy, the first in Spain, It was a major achievement in the career of Murillo, who served as president of the same from 1660 until 1663.

Address: Avda. of the Constitution s / n, 41004 Sevilla - Actual Archivo de Indias

Hospital de la Caridad (5)

Miguel Manara, was an illustrious and wealthy aristocrat Seville, Knight Twenty-four of the City and Provincial of the Holy Brotherhood of Seville, Knight of the Order of Calatrava and Mayor, belonging to a merchant family of Italian origin. After the death of his wife in 1661, It applied for membership in the Brotherhood .

Murillo entered the institution 1665, probably, a proposal from Miguel Manara. He began working in the paintings of the church in 1667 and he ended in 1670; these paints were added, later, other works of the artist who were placed in different altarpieces inside the temple.

Address: C / Temprado 3, 41001 Sevilla

Convent of San Francisco

Shortly after their wedding, Murillo received his first major commission, canvases for the boy Cloister of the Convent of San Francisco (6) , what is now today is Plaza Nueva. Shortly after, you move your neighborhood lifetime to live in the area known as "San Isidro" to the number 19 the Corral Street King. From this period dates the << Betrothal of St. Catherine>> , << The Adoration of the Shepherds>>, << The Holy Family of the Pajarito>> The << The Virgin and Child>>.

Address: New Square, 41001 Sevilla

Church of La Magdalena

In this baptismal font, from the former Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene (7) , He was baptized 1 of January of 1618 Bartolome Esteban Murillo. He was the last son of the marriage formed by the surgeon barber Gaspar Esteban and Maria Perez Murillo. The family lived in a house next to the Convent of San Pablo, although it is not clear where he could be located, because the urban area was extensively renovated.

Address: C / San Pablo 12, 41001

Museum of Fine Arts of Seville

The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville (8), It is a landmark for the knowledge of the artistic personality of Murillo, as it retains one of the most important collections of paintings by the artist.

Address: Museum Square 9, 41001 Sevilla

Chapel of the Expiration Brotherhood of the Museum

The real, Illustrious and Fervent Brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament and Confraternity of Nazarenes of the Holy Expiration of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Virgin of the Waters ", popularly known as Brotherhood of the Museum (9). Here we can find some of the artist as << Resurrection of Christ>>.

Address: Museum Square 10, 41001 Sevilla

Casa de los Pinelo

The House of Pinelo (10) It is currently home to two Royal Academies Sevillanas: the lower floor of the building houses the Royal Academy of Letters of Seville, while the top floor houses the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría, heir to the legendary Painting Academy founded by Murillo and Francisco de Herrera the Younger 1660.

Address: C/Abades 14, 41004 Sevilla

Hospital of Los Venerables

Justin Snow, canon of the Cathedral of Seville, He helped found in 1675 a hospice intended to give asylum to elderly priests who could not fend for themselves. Murillo was linked professionally to the Hospital Venerables Priests (11) Y, beyond that, He maintained a close friendship with Justino de Neve. Different paintings of the artist were arranged in the Hospital, between them, the emblematic Immaculate Conception of the Venerables (h. 1678) or San Pedro de los Venerables penitente (1678-1680), which it was donated by Justino de Neve to the institution, where he was disposed on an altarpiece of the temple.

Address: Plaza de Los Venerables 8 , 41004 Sevilla

Plaza Santa Cruz

As we have noted, he Santa Cruz neighborhood (12) It was the last place that inhabited the painter, shortly after the death of Mañara, He resided in the number 8 Santa Teresa Street. He was buried in the old synagogue in Santa Cruz, destroyed by the circumstances of the nineteenth century, which currently has a square, known as Plaza Santa Cruz.

Address: Plaza de Santa Cruz, 41004 Sevilla

Church of Santa Maria La Blanca

Through The Church of Santa Maria la Blanca (13), it is possible to take a tour of Seville in the seventeenth century following the footsteps of the artist to the most emblematic of his career. a ellos, His works may be seen and understand the creative personality of an exceptional artist, with works such as the Supper or the Triumph of Faith and Eucharist.

Address: C / Santa Maria La Blanca 5, 41004 Sevilla

Plaza de Pozo Santo - San Andrés

The maternal side of the family seemed to be well versed in painting, plus a constant contact, from infancy to Conventual art of San Pablo, La Merced or San Francisco. The author arrived at his workshop in San Andrés Plaza de Pozo Santo (14), when I was fifteen years old.

Address: Plaza de Pozo Santo, 41003 Sevilla