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Murillo, 21, from Brazil Nottingham Forest, since 2023 Centre-Back Market value: €35.00m * Jul 4, 2002 in São Paulo, Brazil.
In 1633, at 15, Murillo received a license for passage to America with his family. He probably began his artistic career, either during those years or slightly beforehand. Murillo began his art studies in Seville in the workshop of Juan del Castillo, Murillo's uncle and godfather, as well a skilled painter in his own right.
The art of the previous generation - of artists such as Zurbarán, Ribera and the early Velázquez - is dark and austere. It's about punishment and penitence. Murillo's approach is lighter and more elegant. He wants to make the Bible stories accessible to the ordinary viewer.
Murillo was the leading painter in Seville in the later 17th century. He remained one of the most admired and popular of all European artists in the 18th and early 19th centuries. His early works were much influenced by the early works of Velázquez, executed before Velázquez left Seville in 1623, and by the paintings of Zurbarán.
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban. Sevilla, 1617 - Sevilla, 1682. Murillo was apparently a calm and sweet natured man, a fact which might explain some aspects of his personal artistic expression. Born into a family of many siblings, he was orphaned as a child and taken in by one of his sisters.
1 day ago · In an honest interview, Nottingham Forest defender Murillo has declared himself open to a move to three Premier League clubs, including Liverpool. After just one year at Forest, the Brazilian is ...
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th-century Spain, noted for his idealized, sometimes precious manner. Among his chief patrons were the religious orders, especially the Franciscans, and the confraternities in Sevilla (Seville) and Andalusia.
