Immaculate Conception

Murillo creates in this work a Inmaculate of colosal proportions. Following the guidelines described by Francisco Pacheco in “The Art of the Painting”, he dresses her with a white robe and a blue cape, but he deprives her of the rosary, placing her in a sky with clouds and angels and thus creating a iconography that would make him a universal painter. In the greatly dynamic composition, the emphatic figure of the Virgin in a dazzling and indefinite background absorbs everything. The cape, the girdle that clings to her waist and her hair are violently rustled by the wind, a great effect of baroque composition. She turns her face, looking down in an attitude of contemplating the believers staring at her, towards the spotlight at the left side of the scene, while turning her arms and torso to the right, creating a spiral. At her feet, we can find a group of angels with their bulky bodies lifting her in the clouds and the full moon, instead of the traditional crescent, that she steps with her right foot.