Francisco de Zurbarán

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Francisco de Zurbarán

BORN: November 7,1598 in Fuente de Cantos, Spain.
DIED: August 27, 1664 in Madrid, Spain.

MOVEMENT: Baroque

INTERESTING FACTS:
In 1614, Zurbarán studied under Pedro Díaz de Villanueva.
Zurbarán was close friends with Diego Velásquez.
In 1630, Zurbarán was appointed as painter to Philip IV.
While painting for Philip IV, the king called Zurbarán "Painter to the king, king of painters."

NOTABLE WORKS:
Immaculate Conception, The Birth of the Virgin, Holy Family and Defence of Cadiz against the English.

FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN Art Book contains 60+ Reproductions of portraits, still-lifes and religious scenes with title and date.

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Zurbaran

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Starker than Velazquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco Zurbaran (1598-1664) is easily among the finest of seventeenth-century Spanish painters. Apprenticed in Seville, he quickly gravitated toward the use of chiaroscuro, possibly having seen paintings by Caravaggio there: he was later to become known as "the Spanish Caravaggio." But Zurbaran's temperament, as it is realized in his painting, appears more melancholy, and therefore less foreboding, than Caravaggio's, and his religious subjects are almost exclusively Christian. He developed a characteristic image repertoire around monasticism and martyrs and made a speciality of the Carthusians, whose white robes he took evident pleasure in depicting. His best-known work may be his 1631 "Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas," now housed in the Seville Museum. It was around this time that Zurbaran's star reached its peak, as he was appointed court painter to Philip IV. Later, toward the end of his life, Zurbaran's harsh chiaroscuro style fell from favor, but his reputation was restored in the twentieth century, in part through the concerns of Cubism and its attraction to precedents for an emphatic plasticity. In this monograph, illustrated with 114 color plates, Santiago Alcolea, a scholar of seventeenth-century Spanish art and the author of previous books on Velazquez and El Greco, provides us with an overview of Zurbaran's artistic career, dividing it into four stylistic phases and reproposing his relevance for our times.

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Francisco de Zurbarán

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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Francisco de Zurbarán: his epoch, his life and his works

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Francisco de Zurbarán (German Edition)

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Francisco de Zurbarán: su época, su vida y sus obras (Spanish Edition)

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