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Find the eagle at upper left and the winged bull at upper right with their Latin banners, then follow John’s pointing hand across to Jesus.
About 1655 Murillo painted four large canvases on John the Baptist for San Leandro, a convent in his home city of Seville, and this is one. John points to Jesus, while verses from the gospels of Luke and John hang in the clouds beside the eagle and winged bull, emblems of those two evangelists. Its softer, hazier handling shows Murillo leaving behind the crisp edges and strong shadows he took from Zurbarán.
Oil on canvas · 270.2 × 184.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque
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- Museum title
- Ecce Agnus Dei
- Artist
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682)
- Date
- c. 1655
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 270.2 × 184.5 cm (106 3/8 × 72 5/8 in.); Framed: 317 × 232 cm (124 13/16 × 91 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Louise B. and Frank H. Woods Purchase Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Baroque c. 1600–1750
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.