“Of the powerhouse exhibitions headed our way this season, ’Murillo: From Heaven to Earth’ at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth (Sept. 18-Jan. 29) heads my list for its title alone. Given the state of our combusting, war-racked planet, we could use some outside help, and in the painterly cosmos of the 17th-century Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo it’s there: Angels and saints beam down to succor ordinary folk, and everyone looks touched by grace. A popular art of immense sophistication in a one-stop-only show. ...”
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, “The Marriage Feast at Cana,” circa 1672, from a powerhouse exhibition of the Spanish painter coming to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.
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