Hospital de la Caridad, Seville
Seville, Spain
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Museum Address
Calle Temprado 3, 41001 Seville, Spain
Seville, Spain
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€8 (under 7 free)
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The Hospital de la Caridad in Seville was founded in 1674 by Miguel de Mañara, a nobleman who devoted his fortune to caring for the city's abandoned sick and burying the dead. Mañara began construction in 1672 and personally devised the church's artistic program, hiring the finest painters in Seville.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painted eight canvases for the church in 1668, illustrating acts of mercy. Valdés Leal contributed two unforgettable vanitas paintings: Finis Gloriae Mundi and In Ictu Oculi, among the most haunting images in Spanish Baroque art. Pedro Roldán carved the main altarpiece. The hospital still operates today, caring for the elderly and infirm as Mañara intended.
Hospital de la Caridad, Seville in Seville, Spain houses 2 masterpieces in our database, including works by Juan de Valdés Leal. Notable works include Sic transit gloria mundi (The End of Worldly Glory) and Allegory of Death: In Ictu Oculi.
Famous Works at Hospital de la Caridad, Seville
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Visiting Hospital de la Caridad, Seville
The Hospital de la Caridad is a 17th-century charitable institution in Seville, Spain. It was founded by Miguel de Mañara and still functions as a home for the elderly and infirm.
The hospital church contains works by Murillo and Valdés Leal, commissioned to remind visitors of charity and mortality. Valdés Leal's vanitas paintings are among the most powerful in Spanish Baroque art.
Miguel de Mañara was a Seville nobleman who devoted his later life to charity. He commissioned the hospital's art program as a visual sermon on death, judgment, and the value of good works.
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