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The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables
1660–1665 · Technique: Oil / Support: Canvas · Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
For the Immaculate Conception · 8 December
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image 6.8×10 in on a 8×10 in sheet
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Crowds of small angels climb the cloud and fill the gold air, and not one of them carries an emblem. Our Lady stands on the moon with her hands crossed on her breast and her face turned up. The Prado names what is missing: no tower of David, no sealed fountain, no palm or cypress, perhaps because they stood in the frame Torre Farfán described, still at the Hospital de los Venerables in Seville. The one emblem Murillo kept is the crescent under her feet, the Apocalypse's woman clothed with the sun: Scripture, not the litany. The crossed hands are his own formula, and the Prado counts some two dozen versions of the subject. Soult took the canvas to Paris in 1813; it came to Madrid in 1941. The frame never left Seville.
Sources: Museo del Prado, object page · Smarthistory, 'Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables' · Apocalypse 12:1, Douay-Rheims.