So true, your perception of this painting. I often wonder if looters ever stopped to look at what they were pillaging and your question is a good one.
I live in Seville and have often visited La Caridad. Murillo painted it specifically for the hospital because it was a charity institution for the destitute. He had a gift of making the divine merge with the human. In our fine arts museum here there is a lovely painting by Murillo of Mary holding the baby Jesus. Little Jesus is pushing away from Mary´s arms and looks as if he wants to leave the painting and connect somehow with the viewer of the painting.
This has nothing to do with your post, really, but I have a tendency to go on about Murillo. :)
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I live in Seville and have often visited La Caridad. Murillo painted it specifically for the hospital because it was a charity institution for the destitute. He had a gift of making the divine merge with the human. In our fine arts museum here there is a lovely painting by Murillo of Mary holding the baby Jesus. Little Jesus is pushing away from Mary´s arms and looks as if he wants to leave the painting and connect somehow with the viewer of the painting.
This has nothing to do with your post, really, but I have a tendency to go on about Murillo.
:)