Museum of Fine Arts of Seville
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The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville or Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla is a museum in Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

, Spain, a collection of mainly Spanish visual arts from medieval period to the early 20th century, including a choice selection of works from the so-called Golden Age of Sevillian painting during the 17th century, such as Murillo
Bartolomé Estéban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children...

, Zurbarán, Francisco de Herrera the younger, and Valdés Leal.

The museum was founded in 1839, after the desamortizacion
Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal
The Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizabal, more often referred to simply as La Desamortización, encompasses a set of decrees from 1835-1837 that resulted in the expropriation, and privatization, of monastic properties in Spain....

or shuttering of religious monasteries and convents, collecting works from across the city and region. Originally, the site held the convent of the Order of the Merced Calzada de la Asunción, founded by St. Peter Nolasco during the reign of King Ferdinand III of Castile
Ferdinand III of Castile
Saint Ferdinand III, T.O.S.F., was the King of Castile from 1217 and León from 1230. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berenguela of Castile. Through his second marriage he was also Count of Aumale. He finished the work done by his maternal grandfather Alfonso VIII and consolidated the...

. Extensive remodeling in the early 17th century was led by the architect Juan de Oviedo y de la Bandera.

Painters and sculptors of Museum


A - F
  • Pedro de Acosta
  • Miguel de Adán
  • Pieter Aertsen
    Pieter Aertsen
    Pieter Aertsen , called Lange Pier because of his height, was a Dutch historical painter. He was born and died in Amsterdam, and painted there and in Antwerp, though his genre scenes were influential in Italy.-Biography:...

  • Nicolás Alperiz
  • Francisco Antolínez
    Francisco Antolínez
    Francisco Antolínez de Sarabia, who was born at Seville in 1644, was nephew of Joseph Antolinez. He was an historical and landscape painter, and studied in the school of Murillo, whose style and manner of colouring he followed...

  • José Arpa
    José Arpa
    José Arpa y Perea, 1858-1952, was an artist of Spanish birth who worked in Spain, Mexico, and Texas. Born in Carmona, Spain, he studied under Eduardo Cano de la Peña at the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, where he won the Rome Prize three times, allowing him to study in Rome...

     y Perea
  • Matías de Arteaga
  • Gustavo Bacarisas
    Gustavo Bacarisas
    Gustavo Bacarisa was a Gibraltarian painter. He was born in Gibraltar and died in Seville, Spain. His work, of a figurative style and varied themes, is characterised by the rich use of colour.-Career:...

  • Francisco Barrera
    Francisco Barrera
    Francisco Barrera was a Spanish fresco-painter best known by his eloquent and successful appeal on behalf of his fellow-artists, upon whom in 1640 the Government wished to impose the taxes levied upon trade corporations. No details of his life are known....

  • Manuel Barrón y Carrillo
  • Mariano Benlliure
    Mariano Benlliure
    Mariano Benlliure was a Spanish sculptor, who executed many public monuments and religious sculptures in Spain, working in a heroic realist style....

  • Guillaume Benson
  • Bartolomé Bermejo
    Bartolomé Bermejo
    Bartolomé Bermejo was a Spanish painter who adopted Flemish painting techniques and conventions.-Biography:Bermejo, whose real name was Bartolomé de Cárdenas, was born in Córdoba...

  • Gonzalo Bilbao
  • Manuel Cabral Aguado-Bejarano
  • Alonso Cano
  • Eduardo Cano
  • Juan José Carpio
  • Juan del Castillo
    Juan del Castillo
    Juan del Castillo was a Spanish Baroque painter.Del Castillo was the youngest brother of the painter Agustín. Both were trained in painting by Luis Fernández in Seville...

  • Pieter Coecke
  • Marcelo Cofferman
  • Lucas Cranach
    Lucas Cranach the Elder
    Lucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...

  • José Domínguez Becquer
  • Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer
  • Juan de Espinal
    Juan de Espinal
    Juan de Espinal , a Spanish historical painter, was a native of Seville. He was the son and pupil of Gregorio Espinal, who was also a painter, but he afterwards entered the school of Domingo Martinez, whose daughter he married. He was chosen director of the School of Design which Cean Bermudez and...

  • Antonio María Esquivel
  • Frans Francken I
    Frans Francken I
    Frans Francken , was a Flemish Baroque painter and an important member of the Francken family of artists.-Biography:...

  • Rosendo Fernández
  • Alejo Fernández
    Alejo Fernández
    Alejo Fernández was a Spanish painter best known for his portrait of Christopher Columbus painted between 1505 and 1536.-Biography:...




G - M
  • José García Ramos
  • Guillermo Gómez Gil
  • Manuel González Santos
  • Francisco de Goya
  • Alfonso Grosso
  • Francisco Gutiérrez
  • Juan Simón Gutiérrez
  • José Gutiérrez de la Vega
  • Eugenio Hermoso
  • Francisco Herrera el Viejo
  • Francisco Herrera el Mozo
  • Jean Joseph Horemmans el viejo
  • José Jiménez Aranda
    José Jiménez Aranda
    José Jiménez Aranda was a Spanish painter....

  • José Lafita y Blanco
  • Diego López
    Diego López
    Diego López may refer to:*Diego López , Spanish Renaissance painter*Diego López Garrido, Spanish politician*Diego López Rodríguez, Spanish football goalkeeper*Luis Diego López, Uruguayan football defender...

  • Ricardo López Cabrera
  • Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
    Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta
    Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta was a Spanish realist painter.He studied painting under his father, Federico de Madrazo, and at the School of the Beaux Arts in Madrid. He was born in Rome, but after 1860 he lived mostly in Paris, where he studied under Léon Cogniet...

  • A Martínez Díaz
  • Domingo Martínez
    Domingo Martinez
    Domingo Emilio Martínez La Fontaine is a former professional baseball player who played for the Toronto Blue Jays in the major leagues, and the Seibu Lions and Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball...

  • Santiago Martínez
  • Juan Martínez Montañés
    Juan Martínez Montañés
    Juan Martínez Montañés , known as el Dios de la Madera , was a Spanish sculptor, born at Alcalá la Real, in the province of Jaén. He was one of the most important figures of the Sevillian school of sculpture.His master was Pablo de Roxas. His first known work, dating 1597, is the graceful St...

     (s)
  • Eduardo Martínez Vázquez
  • Virgilio Mattoni
  • Francisco Meses Osorio
  • Lorenzo Mercadante de Bretaña (s)
  • Juan de Mesa
    Juan de Mesa
    Juan de Mesa y Velasco was a Spanish Baroque sculptor. He was the creator of several of the effigies that are used in the procession during the Holy Week in Seville....

     (s)
  • Pedro Millán (s)
  • Cristóbal de Morales
    Cristóbal de Morales
    Cristóbal de Morales was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He is generally considered to be the most influential Spanish composer before Victoria.- Life :...

  • José Moreno Carbonero
    José Moreno Carbonero
    -Biography:Moreno Carbonero was born in the Perchel quarter of Málaga. In 1868 he joined the art school of his home town, where he was a student of José Denis Belgrano and Bernardo Ferrándiz. At the age of 12 he took part in an art competition in Málaga and won a gold medal. In the same year he...





M - U
  • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
    Bartolomé Estéban Murillo
    Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children...

  • Francisco Narbona
  • Gaspar Núñez Delgado (s)
  • Andrés de Ocampo (s)
  • Juan de Oviedo
  • Francisco Pacheco
    Francisco Pacheco
    Francisco Pacheco was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Diego Velázquez and Alonso Cano, and for his textbook on painting that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain...

  • Andrés Parladé
  • Vasco Pereira
  • Miguel Ángel del Pino Sardá
  • Pieter Porbous
  • José de Ribera
  • José Rico Cejudo
  • José María Rodríguez Acosta
  • Juan de Roelas
  • Jose Marís Romero
  • Antonio Ruiz Echagüe
  • Giovan Battista Ruoppolo
    Giovan Battista Ruoppolo
    Giovan Battista Ruoppolo was a Neapolitan painter from the Baroque era, notable for painting still-lifes. He was a disciple of Paolo Porpora , a contemporary of Salvatore Rosa. Additional Porpora pupils who formed a school of still-life painters in Naples were Giovan Battista and Giuseppe Recco,...

  • Juan Miguel Sánchez
  • Emilio Sánchez-Perrier
  • Cornelis Schut
    Cornelis Schut
    Cornelis Schut was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman and engraver active in Italy and Antwerp.-Biography:...

  • Vicente Sellaert
  • Rafael Senet
  • Francisco Soria Aedo
  • Juan de Solis
  • Doménikos Theotokópoulos, "El Greco"
    El Greco
    El Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος .El Greco was born on Crete, which was at...

  • Fernando Tirado
  • Clemente de Torres
  • Pietro Torrigiano
    Pietro Torrigiano
    Pietro Torrigiano was an Italian sculptor of the Florentine school. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was one of the group of talented youths who studied art under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence....

     (s)
  • Juan de Uceda
    Juan de Uceda
    Juan de Uceda was a Spanish painter. Formerly a student of Alonso Vázquez, he is known for his religious work. Some of his paintings can be seen today in the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville.-References:...




V-Z
  • Andrea Vaccaro
    Andrea Vaccaro
    Andrea Vaccaro was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in Naples in a tenebrist style....

  • Valdés Leal
  • Lucas Valdés
  • Pieter van Lint
    Pieter van Lint
    Pieter van Lint was a Flemish Baroque painter, active in Antwerp and Italy, who painted both religious subjects and genre scenes.-Biography:...

  • Francisco Varela
  • Luis de Vargas
    Luis de Vargas
    Luis de Vargas was a Spanish painter of the late-Renaissance period, active mainly in Seville. He traveled to Rome where he was influenced by Mannerist styles. He painted an altarpiece with multiple panels, including a Virgin and Child appearing to Adam and Eve or La Gamba for the Cathedral in...

  • Alonso Vázquez (painter)
  • Diego de Silva y Velázquez
    Diego Velázquez
    Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist...

  • José Villegas Cordero
  • Cornelis de Vos
    Cornelis de Vos
    right|thumb|Cornelis de Vos, Family portrait, 1631, 165 x 235 cm, Oil on canvas, [[Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp]]Cornelis de Vos , was a Flemish Baroque painter best known for his portraiture....

  • Marten de Vos
    Marten de Vos
    Marten de Vos , also Maarten, was a leading Antwerp painter and draughtsman in the late sixteenth century.-Biography:Like Frans Floris, he travelled to Italy and adopted the mannerist style popular at the time. De Vos was also highly influenced by the colors of Venetian painting, and might have...

  • Sebastian Vrank
  • Jan Wildens
    Jan Wildens
    Jan Wildens was a Flemish Baroque painter and draughtsman specializing in landscapes.-Biography:Jan Wildens was born in Antwerp in 1586 and at the age of ten was apprenticed to Pieter Verhulst and entered Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1604 as a master...

  • Ignacio Zuloaga
    Ignacio Zuloaga
    Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta was a Basque Spanish painter, born in Eibar, near the monastery of Loyola. He was the son of metalworker and damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and director of the royal armoury in Madrid.-Biography:In his youth, he drew and worked in his father's...

  • Francisco de Zurbarán

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