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The Liberation of Saint Peter - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
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Descrizione
A dramatic Baroque scene depicting the miraculous escape of Saint Peter, guided by an angel through the shadows of a prison cell.
This work depicts the biblical account of Saint Peter being freed from his prison cell by an angel. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo employs a dramatic use of light, a hallmark of the Spanish Baroque period, to guide the viewer through the narrative. The angel acts as the primary source of illumination, casting a soft, ethereal glow that contrasts with the surrounding darkness of the dungeon. This technique creates a sense of divine intervention, separating the miraculous event from the mundane reality of the sleeping guards in the background.
Murillo focuses on the interaction between the two figures. Saint Peter, shown in a state of bewildered awakening, reaches out towards his saviour. The angel, rendered with grace and fluidity, gestures towards the exit, guiding the apostle to safety. The composition is balanced, with the figures arranged to draw the eye from the heavy, iron-bound chains on the floor up to the radiant form of the angel. The artist uses a palette of muted earth tones for the prison environment, which allows the warm, luminous colours of the angel's robes to command attention.
As a master of the Seville school, Murillo was known for his ability to combine naturalism with religious sentiment. In this piece, he avoids excessive theatricality, opting instead for a quiet, focused intensity. The textures of the fabric, the heavy metal of the shackles, and the soft skin of the figures are rendered with precision. This print captures the atmospheric quality of the original oil painting, preserving the subtle gradations of shadow and light that define the scene. It is a work that rewards close observation, revealing the technical skill of one of the most respected painters of the seventeenth century.
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The Liberation of Saint Peter - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Prezzo originale
Da £37.00 GBP
Prezzo scontato
Da £37.00 GBP
Prezzo originale
Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Murillo fell from a scaffold in Cadiz and died a few months later. He was sixty-four, working on a fresco at the church of the Capuchines, and the fall ended both the painting and his life. His burial in the Church of Santa Cruz in Seville did not survive either: the French demolished the church during the Peninsular War, and his remains were lost.
He was born in Seville in late 1617, the youngest of fourteen children. His father was a barber surgeon. Both parents died before he was eleven, and he was raised by an older sister and her husband, also a barber. He studied in the workshop of Juan del Castillo, his uncle and godfather, and absorbed the realism of Zurbaran and Ribera. In 1645 he received his first major commission: eleven canvases for the convent of San Francisco in Seville. The success was decisive.
Seville became his entire world. He rarely left. In 1660 he co-founded and became first president of the city's Academy of Painting. His religious paintings, particularly his Immaculate Conceptions, were reproduced and imitated across the Catholic world for the next two centuries. He also painted contemporary street life: flower girls, beggars, street urchins, recorded with an affectionate realism that constitutes a documentary record of seventeenth-century Andalusia.
For two hundred years after his death he was considered one of the greatest painters who ever lived, ranked alongside Raphael and Titian. Then opinion turned. By the late nineteenth century his religious canvases were dismissed as sentimental and treacly, and he was nearly written out of art history altogether. The reassessment continues; the sentimentality charge has not entirely lifted.
He was born in Seville in late 1617, the youngest of fourteen children. His father was a barber surgeon. Both parents died before he was eleven, and he was raised by an older sister and her husband, also a barber. He studied in the workshop of Juan del Castillo, his uncle and godfather, and absorbed the realism of Zurbaran and Ribera. In 1645 he received his first major commission: eleven canvases for the convent of San Francisco in Seville. The success was decisive.
Seville became his entire world. He rarely left. In 1660 he co-founded and became first president of the city's Academy of Painting. His religious paintings, particularly his Immaculate Conceptions, were reproduced and imitated across the Catholic world for the next two centuries. He also painted contemporary street life: flower girls, beggars, street urchins, recorded with an affectionate realism that constitutes a documentary record of seventeenth-century Andalusia.
For two hundred years after his death he was considered one of the greatest painters who ever lived, ranked alongside Raphael and Titian. Then opinion turned. By the late nineteenth century his religious canvases were dismissed as sentimental and treacly, and he was nearly written out of art history altogether. The reassessment continues; the sentimentality charge has not entirely lifted.
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