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Life of Murillo
Murillo was born in Seville, in 1617. In 1633 he began his
training in the workshop of Juan del Castillo. His work,
along with the work of Valdés Leal, is the last phase of
the Spanish Baroque and was, for the most part,
religious.
He founded a prestigious art school in 1660. He also
painted delicate scenes of children, adolescents and
portraits. thanks of his painting, very influenced by Van
Dyck and adapted to Spanish taste and devotion., Murillo
became an artist of great popularity.
The influence of Murillo in Spanish painting extended until
the nineteenth century, mainly in Seville. He is currently
considered one of the great masters and his paintings are
distributed in all the great museums of the world. He died
in Cádiz, in 1682.