Spanish Globalization through Murillo's Eyes

Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla is Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University, Spain. He is the author of several books, including Iberian Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415-1668 (2019). He is also the co-editor of American Globalization, 1492–1850: Trans-Cultural Consumption in Spanish Latin America (2021) and The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500–1914 (2012).

• List of IllustrationsForewordIntroduction: Seville and MurilloPart 1 - Seville and Murillo in Atlantic Pictorial Networks1. Art Markets, Colonial Trade, and Painters in a Global CityPart 2 - Between America and Europe2. American Experiences and Sevillian Traditions3. Globalization and Confessionalization: Family, Women, and Virtue in the Dutch MirrorPart 3 - Globalization and Seville’s Elites4. Passions, Self-Discipline, Religious Conversion, and Family Conflicts: The Theme of the Prodigal Son5. Self-Representation: Aristocracy, Individualism, and Noble ValuesPart 4 - Globalization, Christian Tradition, and Popular Conflict6. Work and Family: A Franciscan and an Artisans’ Painter7. Egalitarian Images, the Moral Economy, and Layers of Globalization in the City of GodPart 5 - Global Contexts and Symbols of Nationhood8. The ‘Republic’ and the ‘Monarchy’ of Spain in Sevillian painting: On the Immaculate Conception and Ferdinand IIIConclusion: Murillo, Spain and seventeenth-century SevilleBibliographyIndex

Through Murillo’s Eyes is a vibrant tribute to a city and an artist that straddled a world of contrasts. While often too easy to think of seventeenth-century Spain as in decline and beginning to isolate, this book makes the invaluable contribution of showing how Spanish art was very much in conversation with the global world.