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Books : Arts & Photography : Artists, A-Z : ( V-Z ) : Zurbaran, Francisco
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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
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Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) was one of the great Spanish painters of the Baroque period. Today, his idiosyncratic, very Catholic imagery fascinates us
even as it has become alien and, in essence, inaccessible. In its aesthetic-religious dimension, his work-- indebted to the Spanish mysticism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--possesses a unique depth and rigor. Christ on the cross, dead martyrs and saints in reverie, meditating monks, the superiors of monastic orders that today have almost ceased to exist: In his mostly dark paintings, they are depicted so realistically, one feels one could reach out and touch them. And yet they also seem to be emissaries from another world. For Zurbarán, a contemporary of Velázquez and Murillo, painting and religious meditation were complementary aspects of spiritual observance. Perhaps it is precisely this quality in his art that makes his paintings the center of our interest today.
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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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Francisco de Zurbaran book includes 93 high quality reproductions of his greatest masterpieces with title and date.
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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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The most prominent of the museum's Spanish paintings is an altarpiece by Francisco de Zurbarâan. The collection also includes works by Ribera and Valdes Leal.
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