Zurbaran
by Santiago Alcolea i Gil
from Poligrafa
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.
Zurbaran, 1598-1664
Masterpieces of Spanish Painting : An Abrams Art Book
by The Editorial Staff
from Abrams
Beautiful Full Color Plates by : El Greco , Ribera, Zurbaran, Velazquez, Murillo & goya
El tenebroso Francisco de Zurbarán.(pintor español)(TT: The tenebrous Francisco de Zurbaran.)(TA: Spanish painter): An article from: Contenido
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Citation Details
Title: El tenebroso Francisco de Zurbarán.(pintor español)(TT: The tenebrous Francisco de Zurbaran.)(TA: Spanish painter)
Author: Justino Marquez
Publication: Contenido (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2000
Publisher: Editorial Contenido, S.A. de C.V.
Page: 50
Distributed by Thomson Gale
The Paintings of Zurbaran: Complete Edition
ZURBARAN: SPAIN'S GREAT MASTER, RANKING WITH EL GRECO AND VELAZQUEZ.
El Bodegon Espanol: De Zurbaran a Picasso 1999-2000. Museo De Bellas Artes De Bilbao - Spain
VERY LARGE AND THICK BOOK, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. WITH ATTRACTIVE DUST JACKET. VERY SCARCE.
The Paintings of Zurbaran
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