Four figures on the stairs

ID: #3204 | Renaissance | People

Date: 1660
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Kimbell Art Museum
Dimensions: 144 x 109

The image of four figures on the steps of addressing the audience, which is thrown in front of four very unusual and disturbing people. This work has often been interpreted differently, most critics, however, led to a version that says that a woman has the right represent the most pimps, dealers harlots that an especially Spanish literature is often represented as a woman with her hair draped shawl and distinctive glasses. The painting guardianship forms the head of a boy with torn trousers. This detail Murrill reworked many times, now it is restored to its original form. The second relatively dominant group was led to believe that the oldest woman only checks whether the boy has lice in her hair. Overall, however, prevailing view that the image is intended to moralization and inciting the viewer has to avoid temptation of worldly pleasures.

Murillo painted picture Four figures on the stairs in 1660. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is landscape. Original size is 144 x 109. This art piece is located in Kimbell Art Museum. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). Spanish baroque painter. He is most famous for his religious paintings (as any artist of his time, he had to respond to demand and most frequently requested themes), but he also painted his contemporaries - mostly women and children. His vivid and realistic portraits florists, beggars, street urchin and other similar characters are an authentic reflection of everyday life in his time.