Identifier: historyofpainti03macf (find matches)
Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n years thereafter, in 1678,he painted for the Church of the Venerables in Seville thatworld-famed Immaculate Conception of the Louvre, whichSoult brought to France as part of his prodigious loot. Besides his Street Urchins, Murillo painted a series ofHoly Children which are more popular—indeed, they viefor public favour with the series of the Immaculate Conception.Of these, the Child St. lohn with the Lamb at the NationalGallery, the Baptist with a Lamb, the Child Christ, and theChildren with the Shell, all at the Prado, are the type, atwhich gallery also is the famous Saint Ann teaching the Virginto read. The sunburnt, travel-stained, simple youth who trudgedit in simple faith to Madrid to sit at the feet of Velazquez,remained the same simple, diffident, sweet-natured man220 XXII MURILLO 1617 - 1682 SENTIMENTALIST SCHOOL OF SEVILLE OR ANDALUSIA THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (La Conception immaculee de la Vierge) (Louvre)Painted in oil on canvas. 9 ft. 0 in. x 6 ft. 3 in. (274 x 1*90).
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OF PAINTING his life long. An industrious, warm-hearted, affectionate IN WHICH fellow, sincere and kindly, he stepped his gentle career THE amidst the fierce jealousies and spites of Seville, drawing GREAT aside from all factions, and soothing all heart-burnings in SPANISH others. It was his artistic ambition to found an Academy ACHIEVE- of Arts in Seville for the teaching: of young artists—and he MkM 0R TI-TFestablished it, even mollifying the bitter jealousy of Vald£s ctvxffn Leal and the egregious Herrera el Mozo in the doing. HUNDRFDS Murillo won all the best artists of Seville to the thorny jjjes qF business. And in the names of the twenty immortals a FALL who constituted that Academy you shall find a fair estimate FROM A of the men who, in their day, the year that Velazquez was SCAFFOLD to die, had honour in Seville : Murillo, Herrera el Mozo, Llanos y Valdes, Pedro Honorio de Palencia, Juan de Valdes Leal, Cornelio Schutt, Ignacio de Iriarte, Pedro de Medina, Matias de Carva

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