LONDON.- The Culture Minister has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by the Spanish artist Murillo. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting of The Virgin and Child in the United Kingdom. The Minister’s ruling follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, administered by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). The Committee recommended that the export decision be deferred on the grounds that the painting is of outstanding aesthetic importance. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) was one of the greatest artists of the Spanish Golden Age, popular with his contemporaries for his religious imagery, portraits and genre paintings. He made numerous versions of the Virgin and Child, but in most of them the figures look straight out towards the viewer and the effect is often regarded as overly sentimental. This early work is a particularly fine example of the same su