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The Immaculate Conception

The Immaculate Conception

c. 1680
(Spanish, 1617–1682)
Spain, 17th century
oil on canvas
Framed: 246.3 x 152.7 x 8 cm (96 15/16 x 60 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 220.5 x 127.5 cm (86 13/16 x 50 3/16 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1959.189
Location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture

Description

The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception maintains that the Virgin Mary was conceived free from sin, therefore ready to be the pure vessel for Christ’s birth. The Immaculate Conception enjoyed intense devotion in Spain during the 1600s, although it was only accepted as official doctrine in the 1860s. The abstract subject required artists to develop appropriate imagery. The crescent moon, for example, comes from the New Testament vision of Saint John the Evangelist (Revelation 12:1) of “a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet.”
  • Sir Thomas Sebright, Beechwood near Boxmoor, Hertfordshire; [F. Kleinberger &: Co., New York]. Purchase, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Bequest, 1959.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 131 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 131 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 150 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 500; Mentioned: p. 501
    Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. "More about Valdés Leal's Sketches for Seville's "Assumption of the Virgin" and "Immaculate Conception"." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 8 (1992): 288-303. Reproduced: p. 288; Mentioned: p. 288-303 www.jstor.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: April through June 2016. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. p. 29-30
  • Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum (3/10-6/16/02); Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (7/14-10/6/02) "Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections". Fig, 1, p. 174, exh. cat. no. 28, p. 174, repr. p. 174.
    Dalí and the Spanish Baroque. Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL (organizer) (February 2-June 24, 2007).
    Salvador Dalí Musuem of Art (2/2/2007 - 6/24/2007): "Dalí and the Spanish Baroque", fig. 24, p. 42-43.
    Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Paintings from American Collections. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (March 10-June 16, 2002); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (July 14-October 6, 2002).
    El Greco to Goya, A Loan Exhibition of Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (organizer) (February 10-March 24, 1963); Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (February 10-March 24, 1963).
    John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana., February 10-March 24, 1963: "El Greco to Goya: A Loan Exhibition of Spanish Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," cat. no. 52, pl. 52. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI April 15- May 26, 1963.
  • {{cite web|title=The Immaculate Conception|url=false|author=Bartolomé Esteban Murillo|year=c. 1680|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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