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The Immaculate Conception
c. 1680 · oil on canvas · The Cleveland Museum of Art
For the Immaculate Conception · 8 December
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A thin moon lies under her feet, and small angels carry a lily, roses and a palm up through the cloud. Our Lady holds both hands to her breast and looks higher than any of them. The moon, Cleveland notes, comes from the vision of the woman clothed with the sun; yet when Rome defined the Immaculate Conception in 1854, the defining document argued from Genesis and from Luke and never cited the Apocalypse. The vision is lent to her, not offered as proof. Francisco Pacheco had set the rules in Seville in 1649, white tunic, blue mantle, the moon below, and the Prado judges that Murillo kept a few and quietly cleared the rest away. Seville swore its oath to the belief in 1617, the year Murillo was born. The wind is still in her mantle.
Sources: c. 1680, oil on canvas, accession 1959.189; the crescent moon from the vision of the woman clothed with the sun; dogma only in 1854; Murillo born 1617 · the defining document argues from Genesis and from Luke and never cites the Apocalypse · Pacheco's rules of 1649, and the Prado's judgement that Murillo kept some and reduced the rest · Seville's cathedral chapter and city council swore their oath to the belief on 8 December 1617