Francisco de Zurbarán
1598 – 1664
Spanish painter of saints and churchmen. His use of sharply defined, often brilliant, colors, minute detail in simple compositions, strongly three-dimensional modeling of figures, and the shadowed light that brightly illuminates his subjects all give his paintings a solidity and dignity evocative of the solitude and solemnity of monastic life. His work at its best fuses two dominant tendencies in Spanish art, realism and mysticism.
46 artworks in collection
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Works
16271662
16271662
Museum
St Francis at Prayer (detail)
Private collection1650
St Francis at Prayer
Private collection1650
Christ on the Cross
Private collection1655
The Virgin Mary as a Child, Asleep
Private collection1655
St Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata
Private collection