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Description: | The Virgin, here shown in a yellow-toned white dress with colourful blue-green drapery, is traditionally known as La Serrana - the mountain peasant. The Child in this picture by the one of the best-known Spanish painters, Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, is wrapped in a cloth with a gay fringe such as Spanish peasants wore. From the left, dressed in sheepskin, St John approaches with a reed cross and a bird. According to Murillo's will and codicil, his daughter Francisca took orders during the 1670s in the same convent for which this picture appears to have been painted. | Subjects: | St John) figure; religion (Virgin and Child | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Murillo, Bartolomé Estebán (Spanish painter and draftsman, 1618-1682) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8762... | Go to resource |
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