Seville welcomes its two masters – The Journal of the Yucatan

SEVILLE (EFE).— The exhibition "Velázquez. Murillo. Seville" will be in Seville until 28 February, brings together 10 works by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and nine of Diego Velázquez selected to highlight the relationship between "ideal more than a direct" between the two geniuses of the sevillians, according to Gabriele Finaldi, curator of the exhibition.

this Is the first major exhibition commemorating the fourth centenary of the birth of Murillo, in a little more than two years held this event in the city of the artist, whose artistic value has not ceased to be vindicated in the past few decades.

the sample, in The old Hospital de los Venerables, the headquarters of the Focus Foundation, which is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, with loans from 11 museums and other institutions, mainly the Prado, but also the Louvre, the Wellington Collection and the National Gallery, which runs Finaldi.

Finaldi expressed his belief that both artists are known even though it is not tested and documented, not only by the travel of Murillo at Madrid but by what this artist "could see" in certain paintings of Velazquez and translate then in his works.

The nine works of Velázquez are dated between 1617 and 1656 and 10 Murillo between 1645 and 1680, and are grouped by pairs or triplets —all considered masterpieces— as iconographies of devotion, or to reveal the innovative look of both teachers at the time of capturing the daily life or the intimacy of the family.

For the first time, you can admire together the two Pristine Velázquez, National Gallery, and the Focus Foundation.

Both paintings were painted by Velázquez with less than twenty years and together they have been located in Murillo, regarded as the interpreter par excellence of the Immaculate conception, the "Immaculate Conception", belonging to the Nelson Atkins Museum of Kansas City, who has never formed part of an exhibition in Spain.

The three Pristine have a similar size and share the same attitude collection, although the tone of Murillo’s is much brighter than the gloomy scenes velazqueñas.

representations of the patron Saints of Seville, also are displayed together, the "Santa Rufina" by Velázquez belonging to the Focus Foundation to the two paintings of Murillo, the "Santa Justa" and "Santa Rufina", the Meadows Museum, Dallas (USA), a couple of boxes of that Finaldi highlighted the skills composition of its author, as well as its variety of colour.

The emotional intensity of "The tears of Saint Peter", by Velázquez, has been confronted with "San Pedro Penitente de los Venerables", of Murillo, a work which, after his purchase to a collector of the british, and its restoration in the Prado, has returned to occupy its original location at the headquarters of the Foundation Focus.

The other groups confronted are the "Infanta Margarita of White", by Velázquez, and "St. Anne teaching reading to the Virgin," by Murillo, and the works of genre that they represent the humble people in environments of modest and everyday, any of which contains still lifes outstanding.