The Immaculate Conception
1680 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
This oil on canvas painting depicts the Virgin Mary ascending to heaven, surrounded by cherubic angels holding symbols of her purity. It is a quintessential example of Spanish Baroque religious art, characteristic of Murillo's soft and ethereal style.
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was famously known as the 'painter of the Immaculate Conception' in 17th-century Seville, as he refined the iconography of this dogma into a highly popular, tender visual format. This specific depiction emphasizes the celestial triumph of Mary, blending the intense religious fervor of the Counter-Reformation with the artist's signature delicate sentimentality.
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The Immaculate Conception
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1680
