Seville Museum of Fine Arts
Former convent turned gallery of Sevillian baroque religious painting, anchored by Murillo and Zurbaran.
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This guide to the Seville Museum of Fine Arts follows a cycle of cloister paintings Murillo made in 1645 for a Franciscan convent in Seville, and their scattering after Napoleon's marshal Soult seized Sevillian art during the 1810 occupation. It traces how the museum itself formed from convents shuttered in 1835, and the dispute historians still have over how many scenes made up Murillo's original cycle.
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