The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville is located in the ancient Convent of La Merced Calzada founded on a land ceded by Ferdinand III after the conquest of Seville. The current building, completed in 1612, is one of the finest examples of Andalusian mannerism.

The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville is one of the most important museums and with one of the most relevant collections at the national level at least as far as Spanish artists are concerned. It is considered the second most important art gallery after the Prado Museum.

The collection housed here, began to be enriched from the twentieth century, is divided into four areas: decorative arts, ceramics, sculpture and painting. To date, works by great Spanish painters such as Murillo, Velázquez, Zurbarán, Valdés Leal, Lucas Valdés, Gonzalo Bilbao, Valeriano Bécquer, Eugenio Hermoso and other Sevillian and world school painters such as Lucas Cranach, Martin de Vos, Juan Miguel Sanchez, are exhibited. Alfonso Grosso, Diego López, Manuel González Santos, Santiago Martinez and José Rico Cejudo.