Baroque painting of the scene of the Birth of the Virgin Mary, painted by Mateo Gilarte (1651). It was part of a series of twelve canvases on the life of the Virgin, commissioned by the Congregation of the Knights of the Assumption of Murcia (a noble brotherhood) for their chapel in the Jesuit Church of San Esteban. Eight of them are preserved, belonging to the Prado Museum and deposited in various museums and institutions in Murcia, Albacete, Ciudad Real, Huesca, Gerona and Barcelona.
Collection: Images
Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe., 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe.
Chronology: XVII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (228 x 147 cm)
Source: Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia
Language: Spanish
Date: 1651
Owner: Raimundo A. Rodríguez Pérez (Modernalia)
Identifier: P000714
Copyright: Museo Nacional del Prado
Abstract: History of mentalities
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