Research Catalog

Title

Murillo : persuasion and aura / Benito Navarrete Prieto ; translated by Jenny Dodman and revised by Véronique Gerard-Powell.

Author

Navarrete Prieto, Benito

Publication

London/Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2021]

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Additional Authors

• Navarrete Prieto, Benito.
• Dodman, Jenny
• Gerard Powell, Véronique

Description

348 pages : illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Murillo y las metáforas de la imagen. English

Alternative Title

Murillo y las metáforas de la imagen.

Subject

• Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 1617-1682 > Criticism and interpretation
• Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 1617-1682

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9781912554409
• 1912554402

OCLC

• on1135573610
• 1135573610

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries