Hospital de la Caridad
Baroque hospice chapel where memento mori paintings confront visitors with mortality and charity.
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This guide to the Hospital de la Caridad chapel in Seville centers on two grim paintings by Juan de Valdes Leal, commissioned in the 1670s by Miguel de Manara, a reformed gambler and self-declared servant of the devil who came to run the hospital's brotherhood of charity. It follows what changed him, a legend involving his own funeral, and what the brotherhood's members actually did, collecting the bodies of paupers and executed criminals off Seville's streets. Look closely at In Ictu Oculi's skeleton snuffing out a candle as you enter.
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