Murillo: Scenes of Childhood
dal 13/2/2001 al 13/5/2001
Segnalato da
13/2/2001
Murillo: Scenes of Childhood
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
This exhibition is the first international exhibition to focus on one of the most powerful and disturbing groups of genre paintings in all Spanish art. The exhibition will be curated by Dr Peter Cherry, lecturer in the History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin and Xanthe Brooke, Curator of European Fine Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
This exhibition is the first international exhibition to focus on one of the most powerful and disturbing groups of genre paintings in all Spanish art. The exhibition is supported by re:source and BSMG Worldwide UK.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and other artists of the Golden Age created some of the most remarkable images of street life in the history of art - ragamuffins and urchins, broken pots and scraps of food, painted with an extraordinary intensity. Murillo's scenes of street children - and their famished dogs competing for a living on the streets of Seville - shock and enchant in equal measure. This exhibition assembles almost every genre painting by Murillo as well as paintings by Velázquez and those of Murillo's friend, Núñez de Villavicencio, an almost unknown artist whose pictures are one of the surprises in the show.
Eighteenth century artists in Britain were in awe of Murillo's mastery of the subtleties of facial expression; the nineteenth century responded to the children's sweetness. The twenty-first century sees something mysterious and profound behind the sentiment, and can appreciate the sheer flamboyance of Murillo's unrivalled technique: his brilliant, sketchy handling of paint has been imitated - by Gainsborough, amongst others - but never equaled.
Dulwich Picture Gallery's four masterpieces by Murillo will be joined by important loans from Russia, other European countries and America, together with Velázquez's Christ in the House of Mary and Martha from London's National Gallery, a reminder of Murillo's status alongside Velázquez as one of Spain's greatest exponents.
The exhibition will be curated by Dr Peter Cherry, lecturer in the History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin and Xanthe Brooke, Curator of European Fine Art at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
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Opening times and admission prices:
Admission including exhibition £7; seniors £6; students, disabled and unemployed £3; Children free.
The Gallery, but not the exhibition, is free for everyone on Fridays until 5 pm.
Open: Tuesday- Thursday 10am - 5pm; Friday 10am - 9pm (except March 16)
Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 11am - 5pm
For further information contact Kate Knowles or Leo Crane in the press office on 020 8299 8710/11
k.knowles@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk or l.crane@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk