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  • NAME: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
  • OCCUPATION: Painter
  • BIRTH DATE: c. January 01, 1618
  • DEATH DATE: April 03, 1682
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Seville, Spain
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Seville, Spain
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th-century Spain, noted for paintings like Immaculate Conception (1652).

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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was baptized on January 1, 1618 in Seville, Spain. He became the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17-century Spain, noted for paintings like Immaculate Conception (1652). The softly modeled forms, rich colors, and broad brushwork of his later paintings were influenced by 16-century Flemish painters. Murillo was praised (and copied) throughout the Spanish empire.

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