The Immaculate Conception by Bartolomé Murillo Antique 1894 Picture Print PP#IC

Description: The Immaculate Conception by Bartolomé Murillo 1894 Antique Print A print from a disbound book published in 1894. The reverse side has an unrelated picture. Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 8" x 10" or 20cm x 25cm Actual page including border and text is approx 10.5" x 12.75" or 26.5cm x 32.5cm This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. 1894 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier. All pictures will be sent bagged and in a tube or Large Letter size box for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (By MURILLO), PARIS.—In the salon Carre of the Louvre, in Paris, hangs the masterpiece of the Spanish painter, Murillo. It represents the Virgin Mary as the very embodiment of youthful purity, innocence and beauty standing in the clouds and supported apparently by an immense throng of cherubs, who form below her and around her a perfect garland of childlike loveliness. Her upturned face, her rapturous expression, her folded hands, her robe of snowy whiteness, her exquisite blue mantle and her angelic retinue, all these form a wonderfully beautiful combination which has endeared this work of art to millions and will continue to do so while it still endures. Murillo has been called the "Painter of the Conception," for he is said to have portrayed this subject twenty-five times. His daughter, Francesca, often served him for a model. Other artists have usually represented the Virgin as a blonde. Murillo, on the contrary, portrayed her with dark hair and eyes, as is certainly more natural in an Oriental woman. A critic once said of this painting that those who did not know that Murillo had produced it would think it had had its origin in heaven. One must go to Spain, and above all to his native city, Seville, to fully appreciate Murillo's genius; for there are most of his wonderful paintings, which of themselves will well repay a trip to Spain. There he was beloved and admired during his life, and there he died on the 3d of April, 1682, from having fallen from a scaffolding while painting the "Marriage of St. Catherine." Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter

Price: 6.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2025-01-19T19:33:25.000Z

Shipping Cost: 16.05 GBP