Saint Anthony Portrait- Bartom Esteban Murillo

Giclee Print- Textured

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682, Spanish) - The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua, 1660-1680. 

Highly esteemed in his own time, Murillo was the 1st president of the Seville Academy (1660). A lesser artist than his contemporary Velazquez, he perfected popular genre paintings and sentimental biblical themes painted in the prevailing bombastic and polished mode of the Spanish Counter-Reformation; his beggar boys, fruit-sellers, Madonnas and saints are presented with shallow feeling. The Beggar Boys Throwing Dice and Madonna are among his best and most sincere paintings.