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Francisco de Zurbarán Paintings
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Francisco de Zurbarán Biography(b. 1598, Fuente de Cantos, d. 1664, Madrid)Spanish painter Born at Fuente de Cantos and active mainly in Seville. Francisco de Zurbarán trained there 1614-17 and after a period at Llerena near his birthplace returned in 1629 as town painter. |
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In 1634-35 Francisco de Zurbarán was in Madrid working for Philip IV on a series of ten pictures on The Labors of Hercules and a large historical scene, The Defense of Cadiz (all now in the Prado, Madrid), but apart from these Francisco de Zurbarán paintings, a few portraits, and some masterly still lifes, he devoted himself almost entirely to religious paintings. Francisco de Zurbarán worked for churches and monasteries over a wide area of southern Spain and Francisco de Zurbarán paintings were also exported to South America. |
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| His compositionally simple and emotionally/direct altarpieces, combining austere naturalism with mystical intensity, made Francisco de Zurbarán an ideal Counter-Reformation painter. The most characteristic of Francisco de Zurbarán paintings are the single figures of monks and saints in meditation or prayer, most of which seem to have been executed in the 1630s. The figures are usually depicted against a plain background, standing out with massive physical presence. Many of these monumentally solemn figures are conceived in great series, such as The Members of the Merced Arian Order (Academy, Madrid), or The Carthusian Saints (Cadiz Museum). But there are single pictures of the same kind. Francisco de Zurbarán painted numerous pictures of St Francis, for example (two in the National Gallery, London), and a number of virgin saints. |
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Towards the end of his career, Francisco de Zurbarán paintings lost something of
its power and simplicity as he tried to come to terms with
the less ascetic style of Murillo, who in
the 1640s overtook him as the most popular
painter in Seville. In 1658 Francisco de Zurbarán moved
to Madrid, where he spent his final years. His
son Juan (1620-49) is known from a few
still-life paintings. |
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