The Book
The work of this 17th-century Spanish Old Master is not well-known outside Spain and England, yet many of his finest works are to be found in Russian Museums. They are collected here for the first time in a book of reproductions of the finest quality. Although the subject of the paintings are almost all religious, mainly taken from the Old and New Testaments, there is an amazing variety of subject matter in Murillo's work. The collections also include the only two genre paintings the artist ever produced, Boy with a Dog, and Girl with Fruit and Flowers. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is perhaps best known for his expressiveness of the faces in his paintings, and there is plenty of his material here. The variety of expression ranges from humble and pious in the face of the Virgin in the Esquilache Immaculate Conception to kindly and solicitous in Joseph Conducting the Infant Christ. There are also many depictions of children.
The Author
Ludmilla Kagane is an art historian and curator of the works of the Spanish Old Masters in The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. She specialises in portraiture and has produced many publications on the work of El Greco, Velásquez, Murillo, Zurbaran, and Goya.
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