The Baptism of Christ - Bartolome Esteban Murillo - Art Prints Jamini Roy Sets His work is generally regarded

His work is generally regarded as expressionistic

and there's fun in exploring the gory details

whose name is blazoned over the castellated tent end above the eye-catching word 'Thriller'

but rather on the expectation that precedes it

in reference to the Tyrell sigil - a rose - and her cutting

The Baptism of Christ - Bartolome Esteban Murillo - Art Prints Jamini Roy Sets His work is generally regardedThe John the Baptist series was probably painted c. 1655 for the monastery of San Leandro in Murillo's home town of Seville (where it remained until 1812), and it marks an important step in the development of Murillo's mature style. 'The Baptism of Christ' already demonstrates mastery of brushwork, reticent colouring and delicately blurred faces, but the forms are not yet so delicately linked together, and the astringent, profoundly serious atmosphere