Pauline Ford
18 July, 2017
Art Appreciation- Professor Richard White
1pm
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th-century Spain. Murillo was the first and only Spanish painter to be extensively well known throughout Europe in his era. Murillo studied under a relative of his where he discovered his passion towards realism. Later on Murillo was exposed to the Flemish and the Venetian style of Baroque art. His art went from the more contemporary naturalistic style to the more grand style of Baroque art. . Murillo's softly modeled forms, rich colors, and broad brushwork of his later paintings was influenced by 16-century Flemish painters. Murillo's worldly pictures mainly reflect