page_title: Hospital de los Venerables
section_title: Church
hierarchical_section_title: Hospital de los Venerables / Church
caption_attribution_description: Español: Vista general del interior de la iglesia del Hospital de los Venerables de Sevilla, (Spain).
context_page_description: The Hospital de los Venerables of Seville, Spain, is a baroque 17th-century building which served as a residence for priests. It currently houses the Velázquez Center, dedicated to the famous painter Diego Velázquez. It is located in the Plaza de los Venerables, in the center of the Barrio de Santa Cruz and close to the Murillo Gardens, the Seville Cathedral and Alcázar.
context_section_description: The church has a single nave covered by a barrel vault with lunettes and arches. The nave is decorated with mural frescos by Valdes Leal: frescos in the chancel represent the invention of the Holy Cross; on the right side of the presbytery is represented San Fernando delivering the mosque to the Archbishop; on the left side is shown San Fernando before the Virgin of Antigua. The reliquary urns are copper and Flemish in origin. Marble paintings of the Immaculate Virgin and Child were made by Sassoferrato. The paintings that cover the vault and the walls were made by Lucas de Valdés, son of Leal.
  The main altarpiece, dating from 1889, depicts the Apotheosis of San Fernando, also by Lucas de Valdés. On either side are represented San Clemente and San Isidoro, painted by Virgilio Mattoni The relief figures of John the Baptist and San Juan Evangelista are attributed to Martinez Montanes and date from the first half of the seventeenth century. The central panel of the altarpiece, which depicts St. Jerome, was originally attributed to Herrera the Elder (16th century), but later was found to date from the mid-seventeenth century. Sculptures of San Fernando and San Pedro, located under the choir, were created by Pedro Roldan.
  In the altarpiece of the Conception, the figure of San Esteban is an anonymous work of the seventeenth century, but it is attributed to Montanes. The altars are the work of Juan de Oviedo. The pulpit, made with polychrome marble and rich woods is the work of Francisco de Barahona. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, who was a friend of Justino de Neve, also painted a work for the hospital, La Inmaculada de Soult, one of his most famous works, today set out in the Prado of Madrid.
caption: Church interior
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