His hard-knock-life street scenes contrast with heavenly images.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's "St. Thomas of Villanueva Dividing His Clothes Among Beggar Boys" , an oil-on-canvas work from around 1667, is among the paintings featured in "Murillo: From Heaven to Earth" at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. The exhibition runs through Jan. 29.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's street scene "Four Figures on a Step" has been at the Kimbell Art Museum since 1984 and served as the inspiration for the current exhibition., a stunner that closes out the show, a viewer can enjoy the worldly goods on view — the intricate Asian tablecloth, an elegant gilt ewer, the lovely local Sevillian pottery and the scrumptious meat pies on the table — as much as the story of Christ miraculously changing water into wine.
The founder of an academy of drawing that held its inaugural meeting at a local fish market in January 1660, the hard-working Murillo had the all-around talent to cover a full range of material. His work boasts both the luscious texture of a Rubens and the solid geometrical structure of a Poussin, bridging the famous divide between those two masters.
Meanwhile, the devastation of a plague in 1649, followed by a famine in 1651, inspired an outpouring of charitable work among religious confraternities for whom serving the poor was not just a moral obligation, but a sacred duty. This is the fervor that animates a work such as, in which several people are standing hungrily around a pot of stew, over which the saint benevolently prays.
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