ROOM III mannerism This room contains the work of some of the most important Sevillian Mannerist artists. Particularly outstanding is part of the series painted by Francisco Pacheco and Alonso Vázquez for the Main Cloister of the Convent of La Merced Calzada, which is the most genuine representation of Mannerism in Seville. Also on display are two altarpieces that are the highest quality expression of the Sevillian School. Penitent. Saint Jerome Pietro Torrigiano introduction The collections The building The Museum of Fine Arts Sevillian painting The building and its collections of Seville was founded as the “Museum of Paintings” in 1835 and opened its doors to the public with works confiscated from the disentailed convents and monasteries. It was housed in the former convent of La Merced Calzada, founded by Saint Pedro Nolasco following the conquest of the city in 1248. is arranged around three courtyards and a large staircase and owes its current layout to the changes made since the beginning of the 17 th century. In 1603, Juan de Oviedo y de la Bandera presented his outlines for the construction, which began with the demolition of the old Mudejar building. The temple was finished in 1612, although it took almost another century to complete the rest of the stonework. The result was a fine example of Andalusian Mannerism. and its evolution, with emphasis on the 17 th century, is the main theme of the museographic discourse, although the museum has a wide range of collections (painting, sculpture, pottery, gold and silverwork, furniture, etc.). reflect the museum’s history: confiscated ecclesiastical assets, donations of private collections built up during the 19 th century and the early part of the 20 th century, and items purchased by public bodies in recent decades. ROOM VI Spanish and Sevillian Baroque ROOM VII Murillo and his followers ROOM VIII Juan de Valdés Leal ROOM IX European Baroque painting ROOM X Francisco de Zurbarán ROOM XI 18 th century Spanish and Sevillian painting ROOM XII 19 th century Sevillian painting ROOM XIII 20 th century Sevillian painting ROOM XIV 20 th century Spanish painting ROOM I Spanish Mediaeval Art ROOM II Renaissance Art ROOM III Mannerism ROOM IV Naturalism ROOM V Murillo and the Sevillian Baroque School museum plan Here you can see the beginnings of Naturalism in Sevillian painting, with artists such as Francisco Pacheco, his disciples, Diego de Velázquez and Alonso Cano, Francisco de Herrera and Juan de Roelas. There is also a series of sculptures depicting the child Jesus and the head of John the Baptist, widespread iconographies during the 17 th century. ROOM IV naturalism century and his influence survived into the 19 th century. Juan del Castillo, Uceda and Roelas represent the generation that began to create large paintings for typically Counter- Reformationist altarpieces. Herrera the Elder and Zurbarán continued with Naturalism into the second third of the The Immaculate of the Choir “The Child”. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo This room, once the Convent church, provides a grand setting in which to exhibit the nucleus of the 17 th century Sevillian School painting. Based on the Mannerist formulas and an incipient Naturalism that began with Roelas, it evolved until it reached Murillo, the maximum exponent of the Sevillian Baroque School. The latter’s style dominated the first half of the 18 th ROOM V murillo and the sevillian baroque school The former church of the Convent of La Merced ground floor The lobby is decorated with tile panels from disentailed Sevillian convents. Particularly outstanding are those from the convent of El Pópulo and the entrance arch to the Claustro del Aljibe, built around 1600 by Hernando de Valladares for the convent of San Pablo. In the Claustro del Aljibe there is a ceramic panel of the Virgin of the Rosary created by Cristóbal de Augusta in 1577 for the convent of Madre de Dios. Weeping over the Dead Christ. Pedro Millán In this room you can see works from the Spanish Gothic period and the beginnings of the Sevillian school. Outstanding in sculpture is the work of Lorenzo Mercadante de Bretaña and Pedro Millán and in painting that of the artists from Juan Sánchez de Castro’s circle. ROOM I spanish mediaeval art Sevillian painting and sculpture in the 15 th century XV The arrival during the 16 th century of Italian and Flemish works and artists, like the sculptor Torrigiano and the painters Alejo Fernández and Martín de Vos, introduced the Renaissance into the Sevillian School. The Sevillians Cristóbal de Morales and Villegas Marmolejo contributed to shaping the personality of this school. In this room you can see works by El Greco and Lucas Cranach. ROOM II renaissance art century. This room culminates with the reconstruction of the main altarpiece from the Convent of the Capuchins by Murillo. In a small chapel in the transept you will find the popular Virgin of the Serviette by the same artist. ground floor upper floor lift lift photographs by pedro feria lift lift
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ROOM IIImannerismThis room contains the work of someof the most important Sevillian Manneristartists. Particularly outstanding is partof the series painted by FranciscoPacheco and Alonso Vázquez for theMain Cloister of the Convent of LaMerced Calzada, which is the mostgenuine representation of Mannerismin Seville. Also on display are twoaltarpieces that are the highest qualityexpression of the Sevillian School.
Penitent. Saint JeromePietro Torrigiano
introductionThe collections The buildingThe Museum of Fine Arts Sevillian painting
The building and its collections
of Seville was founded as the “Museumof Paintings” in 1835 and opened itsdoors to the public with worksconfiscated from the disentailedconvents and monasteries. It washoused in the former convent of LaMerced Calzada, founded by SaintPedro Nolasco following the conquestof the city in 1248.
is arranged around three courtyardsand a large staircase and owes itscurrent layout to the changes madesince the beginning of the 17th century.In 1603, Juan de Oviedo y de laBandera presented his outlines for theconstruction, which began with thedemolition of the old Mudejar building.The temple was finished in 1612,although it took almost another centuryto complete the rest of the stonework.The result was a fine example ofAndalusian Mannerism.
and its evolution, with emphasis onthe 17th century, is the main theme ofthe museographic discourse, althoughthe museum has a wide range ofcollections (painting, sculpture, pottery,gold and silverwork, furniture, etc.).
ref lect the museum’s history:confiscated ecclesiastical assets,donations of private collections builtup during the 19th century and theearly part of the 20th century, anditems purchased by public bodies inrecent decades.
ROOM VISpanish and SevillianBaroque
ROOM VIIMurillo and his followers
ROOM VIIIJuan de Valdés Leal
ROOM IXEuropean Baroque painting
ROOM XFrancisco de Zurbarán
ROOM XI18th century Spanish and Sevillian painting
ROOM XII19th century Sevillian painting
ROOM XIII20th century Sevillian painting
ROOM XIV20th century Spanish painting
ROOM ISpanish Mediaeval Art
ROOM IIRenaissance Art
ROOM IIIMannerism
ROOM IVNaturalism
ROOM VMurillo and the Sevillian BaroqueSchool
museum plan
Here you can see the beginnings ofNaturalism in Sevillian painting, withartists such as Francisco Pacheco, hisdisciples, Diego de Velázquez andAlonso Cano, Francisco de Herrera andJuan de Roelas. There is also a seriesof sculptures depicting the child Jesusand the head of John the Baptist,widespread iconographies during the17th century.
ROOM IVnaturalism
century and his influence survived intothe 19th century. Juan del Castillo,Uceda and Roelas represent thegeneration that began to create largepaintings for typically Counter-Reformationist altarpieces. Herrera theElder and Zurbarán continued withNaturalism into the second third of the
The Immaculate of the Choir “The Child”.Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
This room, once the Convent church,provides a grand setting in which toexhibit the nucleus of the 17th centurySevillian School painting. Based on theMannerist formulas and an incipientNaturalism that began with Roelas, itevolved until it reached Murillo, themaximum exponent of the SevillianBaroque School. The latter’s styledominated the first half of the 18th
ROOM Vmurillo and the sevillianbaroque school
The former church of the Convent ofLa Merced
ground floorThe lobby is decorated with tile panelsfrom disentailed Sevillian convents.Particularly outstanding are those fromthe convent of El Pópulo and the entrancearch to the Claustro del Aljibe, built around1600 by Hernando de Valladares for theconvent of San Pablo. In the Claustro delAljibe there is a ceramic panel of theVirgin of the Rosary created by Cristóbalde Augusta in 1577 for the convent ofMadre de Dios.
Weeping over the Dead Christ.Pedro Millán
In this room you can see works from theSpanish Gothic period and the beginningsof the Sevillian school. Outstanding insculpture is the work of LorenzoMercadante de Bretaña and Pedro Millánand in painting that of the artists fromJuan Sánchez de Castro’s circle.
ROOM Ispanish mediaeval artSevillian painting and sculpture in the15th century XV
The arrival during the 16th century ofItalian and Flemish works and artists,like the sculptor Torrigiano and thepainters Alejo Fernández and Martín deVos, introduced the Renaissance intothe Sevillian School. The SevilliansCristóbal de Morales and VillegasMarmolejo contributed to shaping thepersonality of this school. In this roomyou can see works by El Greco andLucas Cranach.
ROOM IIrenaissance art
century. This room culminates with thereconstruction of the main altarpiecefrom the Convent of the Capuchins byMurillo. In a small chapel in the transeptyou will find the popular Virgin of theServiette by the same artist.
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The Virgin of the CavesFrancisco Zurbarán
upper floor
The Temptation of Saint Jerome.Juan de Valdés Leal
In the 18th century, the influence of Murilloand Valdés Leal and a depressedeconomy held back the evolution of theSevillian School. The stay of the court ofPhillip V in Seville and the journeys madeby local painters to Madrid brought aboutan opening up to the new Europeantrends. From outside the local area wehave Goya, a culminating figure in Spanishart in the transition to the 19th century.
ROOM XI18th century spanish andsevillian painting
In addition to works from the SevillianSchool of the mid-17th century, thisgallery has a selection of SpanishBaroque paintings, particularly from theMadrid school. Of special interest arethe works of José de Ribera andFrancisco de Herrera el Mozo, whointroduced the full Baroque to Seville.
ROOM VIspanish and sevillian baroque
ROOM VIImurillo and his disciplesThis room displays works by Murilloand his closest followers - MenesesOsorio, Núñez de Villavicencio andSimón Gutiérrez, who imposed a stylethat would dominate Sevillian paintinguntil the 18th century.
ROOM VIIIjuan de valdés lealThis room is devoted to Juan de ValdésLeal, who manifested a more dramaticand expressive concept in the way ofunderstanding painting. His work ischaracterised by its dynamic, opencompositions, a decisive brushstrokeand great chromatic contrasts.
ROOM IXeuropean baroque paintingThis room offers an overview of 17th
century European painting, mainlyFlemish and Italian.
ROOM Xfrancisco de zurbaránThe Carthusian Monastery of Las Cuevas
Zurbarán brought the profound spiritualismthat would characterise his work to theSevillian School. This is testified to bythree monastic cycles: those of theConvent of San Pablo, Porta Coeli andthe Carthusian Monastery of Santa Maríade las Cuevas, where they decorated thesacristy of the church.
ROOM XII19th century sevillian paintingRomanticism brought about a re-evaluation of Sevillian art, particularlyCostumbrista painting. At the end of the
During the first half of the 20th centurySeville remained virtually on the fringesof European aesthetic innovations,although Bacarisas did show slight signsof opening up. Two of the mostoutstanding local artists of this time wereGonzalo Bilbao and García Ramos.
ROOM XIII20th century sevillian painting
ROOM XIV20th century Spanish paintingHere you will find a selection of worksby Spanish painters dating up to themid-20th century. Particularlyoutstanding are the canvases of IgnacioZuloaga, Daniel Vázquez Díaz and,above all, Joaquín Sorolla.
Sevillana dance couple.José García Ramos
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century, the realist landscape andoutstanding artists such as José Villegas,José Jiménez Aranda and GonzaloBilbao would mark Sevillian art.
Portrait of Don José Duaso y Latre.Francisco de Goya
For many years now the RegionalMinistry of Culture of the Junta deAndalucía has been making great effortsto modernise the museums of Andalusiato enable them to face up to the newcultural and social challenges and tomake it as easy as possible for thepublic to visit their collections.
The Museums of Andalusia managedby the Regional Ministry of Cultureform a network of nineteen very differentinstitutions: the Museum of Almería,the Andalusian Centre of Photography,the Museum of Cádiz, the CordobaArchaeological Museum, the CordobaMuseum of Fine Arts, the GranadaArchaeological Museum, the Casa deLos Tiros Museum and the GranadaMuseum of Fine Arts, the Museum ofHuelva, the Museum of Jaén, theLinares Archaeological Museum, theÚbeda Archaeological Museum, theMuseum of Popular Arts and Customsof the Alto Guadalquivir in Cazorla, the
Museum of Malaga, the AndalusianCentre for Contemporary Art, the SevilleArchaeological Museum, the SevilleMuseum of Popular Arts and Customs,the Seville Museum of Fine Arts andthe Murillo Museum-House.
They welcome all those who wish to learnmore about our homeland and ourheritage through their collections andorganised activities. This artistic,archaeological and ethnographic heritagereflects the way we were and how wehave become what we are today. Throughtheir exhibitions and activities, theinstitutions show what we aspire to bein the future. We welcome you to thismuseum and we wish you an enjoyablevisit. We invite you to visit all theMuseums of Andalusia and we thankyou for this connection you have madewith the heritage of Andalusia, which webelieve will stay with you forever.
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