20 October 2008 – 25 January 2009

The Young Murillo

The Young Murillo

Curated by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez and Benito Navarrete, the exhibition will include fifty or so works by the young Murillo (Seville, 1617-82) from a crucial period in his career, one represented—through some particularly fine works—in the collections of both Bilbao and Seville Fine Arts Museums: St. Peter Weeping (c.1650-55) and St. Lesmes (c. 1655) in Bilbao, and St Francis (c.1645-50) and San Jerome (c. 1665-75) in Seville. Around 1640 Murillo achieved his first artistic successes, launching a career in the ascendant. During this early period Murillo produced an oeuvre marked by a taste for tenebrism and naturalism, a reflection of the durable influence of masters from the previous generation, like Zurbarán and Ribera, particularly in the way he plays with the light and dark and his close observation of his subject.

Address

Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Plaza del Museo, 2
48011 Bilbao
phone +34 944396060
http://www.museobilbao.com/

Opening Hours

Tuesday-Saturday
10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, hollidays
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
closed on Mondays

Description of the Museum

First mooted in 1908, the Museo de Bellas Artes was originally a joint initiative of the Diputación (Provincial Council) of Vizcaya and the Bilbao City Council. The new Museum eventually opened its doors to the public in 1914. The Fine Arts Museum was conceived as part of a more general drive to modernise turn-of-the-century Bilbao socially and culturally and to provide members of the local artistic community with the best possible historical models during their training. Directed by artist Manuel Losada, the new Museum was housed in what had been the city's School of Arts & Crafts.

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