Mateo Gilarte - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:40:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Mateo Gilarte - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The Birth of the Virgin https://historylab.es/the-birth-of-the-virgin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-birth-of-the-virgin Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:54:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-nacimiento-de-la-virgen/ History of mentalities

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]]> 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.

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