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Francisco de Zurbaran 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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Painting ID:: 20569 St Apollonia (mk05)
Canvas,53 x 26 1/2''(134 x 67 cm)Acquired in 1867 from the heirs of Marshal Soult
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Painting ID:: 20571 The Lying-in-State of St Bonaventure (mk05)
Canvas,96 1/2 x 94 1/2''(245 x 240 cm)Acquired in 1858 from the heirs of Marshal Soult
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Painting ID:: 21622 The Death of St Bonaventura (mk08)
1629
Oil on canvas,
245x220cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 21629 St Hugo of Grenoble in the Carthusian Refectory (mk08)
c.1633
Oil on canvas.
102x168cm
Sevilla,Museo de Beallad Artes
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Painting ID:: 21630 St Margaret (mk08)
c.1630-1635
Oil on canvas
192x112cm
London,National Gallery
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Francisco de Zurbaran
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..
. Related Artists to Francisco de Zurbaran: | John Augustus Atkinson | Albert Dubois-Pillet | Henri Matisse | joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellange | Katsushika Hokusai |
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