The South Room of the Conde Duque Center in Madrid (Conde Duque street, 11) presents until November 22 the exhibition Art and Mercy: The Baroque of the Holy Charity of Seville in Madrid.
This exhibition hosts an exceptional collection of works created for the Hospital of the Holy Charity and the church of Lord San Jorge in Seville.
The exhibition, organized on the occasion of the rehabilitation of both spaces, will allow viewing works by essential figures of Spanish Baroque such as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Juan de Valdés Leal and Pedro Roldán, among others.
Created in the second half of the 17th century, these works respond to the iconographic program conceived by Miguel Mañara, the senior brother of the Brotherhood of the Holy Charity, around the works of mercy. The Hospital of the Holy Charity of Seville is one of the foremost examples of 17th-century Sevillian Baroque. It was originally founded in the 15th century to provide burial for those executed and drowned in the Guadalquivir river.
Mañara designed a detailed iconographic program focused on the transience of life, the final judgment, and the importance of practicing charity to save the soul.
