Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter who spent his career in Seville, where he was baptized in 1618 and died in 1682. He became one of the defining artists of Spain's Golden Age, celebrated for religious paintings and scenes of everyday life rendered with warmth and humanity. His work evolved from early naturalism toward a more complete Baroque vocabulary, sometimes approaching Rococo sensibility in his handling of light and sentiment.