Murillo: The Self-Portraits

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This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the one two known self-portraits by Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (1617–1682), one of the crucial finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two remarkable paintings are steadily overshadowed by Murillo’s more famous religious paintings and genre scenes.  This book investigates the two self-portraits side by side, highlighting similarities and differences. Even as the earlier portrait reflects Murillo’s admiration of antiquity and imitation of classical models, the later one shows a confident, mature artist who used to be at the moment the leading painter in Seville. As well as, the book discusses latest technical analysis, offering a greater understanding of how these self-portraits were painted, and provides a rare opportunity to compare how one of the crucial celebrated and influential European painters chose to represent himself at different stages of his exceptional career.


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