Artist: Francisco de Zurbaran Painting: The Ecstacy of St Francis (mk08) Introduction: c.1660
Oil on canvas,
65x53com
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,
Alte Pinakothek
Saint Francis of Assisi (nn03) Painting ID:: 23543
Artist: Francisco de Zurbaran Painting: Saint Francis of Assisi (nn03) Introduction: c 1650/60 Oil on canvas 209 x 110 cm
82 x 43 in Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Barcelona
The Defense of Cadiz Against the English Painting ID:: 28115
1598-1664
Spanish Francisco de Zurbaran Galleries
Spanish baroque painter, active mainly at Llerena, Madrid, and Seville. He worked mostly for ecclesiastical patrons. His early paintings, including Crucifixion (1627; Art Inst., Chicago), St. Michael (Metropolitan Mus.), and St. Francis (City Art Museum, St. Louis), often suggest the austere simplicity of wooden sculpture. The figures, placed close to the picture surface, are strongly modeled in dramatic light against dark backgrounds, indicating the influence of Caravaggio. They were clearly painted as altarpieces or devotional objects. In the 1630s the realistic style seen in his famous Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquinas (1631; Seville) yields to a more mystical expression in works such as the Adoration of the Shepherds (1638; Grenoble); in this decade he was influenced by Ribera figural types and rapid brushwork. While in Seville, Zurbur??n was clearly influenced by Velazquez. After c.1640 the simple power of Zurbaran work lessened as Murillo influence on his painting increased (e.g., Virgin and Child with St. John, Fine Arts Gall., San Diego, Calif.). There are works by Zurbar??n in the Hispanic Society of America, New York City; the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art..
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