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Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art

Saturday, Nov 14, 2020 — Sunday, Jul 28, 2024



This exhibition is part of a continued collaboration between the Georgia Museum of Art and Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina, and provides visitors with the opportunity to see works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others. Viewers will be immersed in a selection of paintings that uphold the tenets of Catholic Counter-Reformation Art illustrative of the struggle between the Catholic church and the rise of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, which dominated the art scene in 17th-century Spain.

  • Georgia Museum of Art
    Workshop of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618 – 82), “The Martyrdom of St. Andrew,” ca. 1675-78. Oil on canvas. Museum and Gallery at Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC.
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  • Georgia Museum of Art
    Pedro Orrente (Spanish, ca. 1580 – 1645), “Ecce Homo” (“Behold the man”), 1610. Oil on canvas, 46 15/16 x 60 1/4 inches. Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, SC.
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  • Georgia Museum of Art
    Attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán 1598 – 1664), “The Annunciation,” 1639 – 40. Oil on canvas. Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, SC.
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  • Georgia Museum of Art
    Francisco de Herrera, the Elder (1590 – 1654), “Saint Catherine of Alexandria Appearing to the Family of Saint Bonaventure (?),” ca. 1628. Oil on canvas. Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, SC.
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  • Georgia Museum of Art
    José Antolínez (1635 – 1675), “Saint Michael the Archangel Overcoming Satan,” n.d. Oil on canvas. Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, SC.
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Curator

Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, and Julia Kilgore, Pierre Daura Curatorial Research Assistant

Galleries

Samuel H. Kress Gallery

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