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Murillo. Persuasion and Aura

Harvey Miller Publishers

English Text.
London, 2021; bound, pp. 340, 14 b/w ill., 272 col. ill., cm 22,5x30.
(Studies in Baroque Art. 16).

series: Studies in Baroque Art

ISBN: 1-912554-40-2 - EAN13: 9781912554409

Subject: Monographs (Painting and Drawing)

Period: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Renaissance

Languages:  english text  

Weight: 2.02 kg


This book examines how Murillo constructed his paintings and the devices he employed to provoke responses in the viewer, both then and now.

Murillo has attracted particular attention from historians since the seventeenth century to the present day, though opinions of his oeuvre have varied from period to period. The communicative power of his paintings, both then and now, has led him to be used and exploited for different ends. He deliberately cultivated this quality from the time he became an accomplished artist in his native Seville, where he enjoyed great prestige during his lifetime thanks to the resources of his art, his talent and his ability to elicit emotions and arouse passions. His paintings, as if they were prophecies, can only be understood from a visual culture approach and by analysing what his images provoke. Their seemingly easy and familiar appearance is merely the mirror that Murillo, with his command of local codes and the devices of painting, places in front of viewers to trigger a complex empathetic process designed solely to persuade and seduce them, often anticipating their response.

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