Francisco Pacheco Many works. Museo. (1571-1654). " " House of Murillo. " " Cathedral. " " Churches. Francisco de Zurbaran Legend of St. Cap de St. Pedro, (1598-1661). Pedro. Cathedral. " Death of St. Museo. Thomas Aquinas. " Other works. Ditto. " Eight Female Hospital del Sangre. Saints. Alonso Cano Our Lady of Altar de la Virgin (1601-1667). Bethlehem. de Belen, Cathedral. Juan de Valdés Leal San Ildefonso. Cap de St. Francisco, (1630-1691). Cathedral. " Pictures illustrating Hospital de la the vanity Caridad. of worldly grandeur. " Many works. Museo. CHAPTER IX _Velazquez and Murillo_ 'The more the artist studies Nature, the nearer he approaches to the true and perfect idea of art.'--Sir J. REYNOLDS. On the 15th of June, in the year 1599, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was born in Seville. Eighteen years later affords the record of birth of Murillo. Contemporary, or nearly so, they began their lives in the same environment, yet from their earliest youth they tended to develop upon divergent lines. The young Velazquez, at the age of thirteen, became the pupil of the vigorous Herrera, while Murillo entered the school of the academic Juan de Castillo. It was reserved for Velazquez to break away from the traditional limitations of the Sevillian school, while the work of Murillo was to develop them to their fairest fruition. The national manner, begun by Herrera and developed by Zurbaran, was, by the genius of Velazquez, carried to perfect fulfilment.