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Summary Of Saint Thomas Of Villanueva Painting

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Bartolome-Esteban Murillo, Saint Thomas of Villanueva Giving Alms to the Poor 1678 This painting grabbed my attention with the goldish and yellowish coloring of the foggy like substance that the woman with the three babies above the saint seems to be floating in. This painting also called me over to it because of the rounded and blackened corners from a distance they just looked like wear and tear on the painting but upon viewing it more closely I noticed that it is the under passage of an arch that is protruding out from the building that stretches into the background of this piece. The last to things about this painting that drew my attention to it rather than the others were the foggy in the background in the mid-section of the building that flows into the background as well as the colors the Saint is wearing it is mainly black with an orangish shawl over his robes. The coloring of the shawl was interesting to mean because I had not seen this shade of orange used before at all let alone on a saint. Overall this painting really stood out to me because of the constant changes and shocks in coloring it did that I had not seen before such as: the orange shawl, the use of fog to darken and lighten the already black building, the black rounded upper corners of the painting, and the goldish half moon that the lady with the three babies is floating in. Firstly, Saint Thomas: he is dressed in a solid black robe with extruding white cuffs then above that is the orange shawl like

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