Murillo made an impressive pictorial series for the convent of the Capuchins, considered one of his masterpieces. ‘Murillo and the Capuchins of Seville’ contemplates the exhibition of all the works that formed the original set. For the occasion, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne lends the main canvas of the high altarpiece, ‘The jubilee of the Porziuncola’, which left Seville in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition, the proposal will delve, through drawings and sketches, into the way in which the artist conceived the project.

The following works are part of the exhibition: ‘St Leander and St Bonaventure’, ‘St Joseph and the Child’, ‘St John the Baptist’, ‘St Anthony with the Child’, ‘St Felix of Cantalicio with the Child’, ‘Annunciation’, ‘Pieta’, ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’, ‘Apparition of the Virgin’ and ‘The Child with St Felix Cantalicio’, ‘St Thomas of Villanueva giving alms’, ‘St Francis embracing Christ’, ‘St Anthony of Padua and the Child’, ‘Immaculate Conception with the Eternal Father’, ‘Immaculate Conception as a Girl’, ‘Archangel of St Michael’ (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), ‘Guardian Angel’ (Cathedral, Seville) and ‘The Holy Face’ (Private collection, Great Britain).

The visitor will also be able to see drawings such as ‘Immaculate of the Choir’ (private collection), ’St Felix of Cantalicio with the Child’ (Morgan Library, New York), ‘St Francis embracing the Crucifix’ (Kunsthalle, Hamburg) and ‘St Francis embracing the Crucifix’ (Coulrtauld Institute, London).

Dossier Murillo and the Capuchins of Seville