Sevilla, Spain a few moons ago. This sculpture is the painter Estaben Murillo, one side of a statue dedicated to the immaculate conception in the Plaza del Triunfo just steps from Sevilla’s Cathedral and the famous Giralda tower.
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Gouache in a 7 x 10“ Stillman and Birn Nova sketchbook.
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I find it fascinating that this statue is not celebrating him as an artist, but for his religious views.
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This statue was dedicated to the Immaculist side of a passionate theological debate — sometimes erupting into street violence — over whether the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin, meaning she was pure and sinless from the very moment of her conception.
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As opposed to the other side which thought only Christ was without sin. In the 1700s this debate divided catholic Europe fiercely. The immaculists won the fight and it became official church doctrine in the 1850s.
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Sevilla, Spain a few moons ago. This sculpture is the painter Estaben Murillo, one side of a statue dedicated to the immaculate conception in the Plaza del Triunfo just steps from Sevilla’s Cathedral and the famous Giralda tower.
•
Gouache in a 7 x 10“ Stillman and Birn Nova sketchbook.
•
I find it fascinating that this statue is not celebrating him as an artist, but for his religious views.
•
This statue was dedicated to the Immaculist side of a passionate theological debate — sometimes erupting into street violence — over whether the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin, meaning she was pure and sinless from the very moment of her conception.
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As opposed to the other side which thought only Christ was without sin. In the 1700s this debate divided catholic Europe fiercely. The immaculists won the fight and it became official church doctrine in the 1850s.