The Hospital de la Caridad in

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is a

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charity

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

building near

Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla The Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla is a 12,000-capacity bullring in Seville, Spain. During the annual Seville Fair in Seville, it is the site of one of the most well-known bullfighting festivals in the world. It is ...

. The charity hospital was founded in 1674, and still cares for the aged and infirm. The hospital's chapel is open to the public and "contains some of Seville's most sumptuous baroque sculpture."

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ( , ; late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporar ...

in 1668 painted eight paintings commissioned for

's Hermandad de la Caridad, to which the artist himself belonged and one of whose commandments was to clothe the naked. Four of those eight works remain in Seville ( ''The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes'', '' Moses at the Rock of Horeb'', ''Saint Elizabeth of Hungary'' eturned to Spain 1815and '' Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man''), whereas the Washington work and the other three were looted by Napoleonic commander and Marechal

Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult Marshal General Jean-de-Dieu Soult, 1st Duke of Dalmatia, (; 29 March 1769 – 26 November 1851) was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of the Empire in 1804 and often called Marshal Soult. Soult was one of only six officers in Fren ...

in 1810 ('' The Healing of the Paralytic'', National Gallery, London; '' Abraham Receiving the Three Angels'', National Gallery of Canada; '' The Liberation of Saint Peter'',

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...

). Martin Gayford
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January 17, 2007 File:Murillo_Abraham.jpg, ''Abraham and the Three Angels'' (c. 1670-1674) File:Murillo moises.jpg, Moses at the Rock of Horeb File:Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) - The Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes - NG 2796 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg, ''The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes'' (c. 1667-1682) Copy Study in the National Galleries of Scotland for the original "The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes "1669-1670" or "1670–1674" File:Return of the Prodigal Son 1667-1670 Murillo.jpg, ''The Return of the Prodigal Son'' (c. 1667-1670) File:Curacion_del_paralitico_Murillo_1670.jpg, ''Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda'' (1667-1670) File:Liberacion_de_San_Pedro_Murillo_1667.jpg, ''Liberation of Peter'' (1665-1667) File:John_of_god_murillo.jpg, ''Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man'' (1672) File:Santa_Isabel_de_Hungría_curando_tiñosos..jpg, ''Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Curing the Sick'' (1672)

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