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    Francisco de Zurbarán
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  • Brown, Jonathan. Francisco de Zurbarán. New York: Harry N. Abrams,

    A concise edition of Brown’s monograph on the artist first published in Forty color plates with short entries follow an introductory essay on the artist’s life, work, and reception.

  • Brown, Jonathan. Painting in Spain, –. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press,

    Within a larger survey of painting across the Iberian Peninsula, Zurbarán is covered in chapter 8, “The Art of Immediacy: Seville –” (pp. –) and chapter 12, “Seville at Mid-Century –” (pp. –). These chapters were published previously in Brown’s The Golden Age of Painting in Spain (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, ).

  • Cascales y Muñoz, José. Francisco de Zurbarán: su época, su vida y sus obras. Madrid: Fernando Fé,

    Foundational study of Zurbarán’s life and work, in

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    Spanish painter of saints and churchmen. His use of sharply defined, often brilliant, colors, minute detail in simple compositions, strongly three-dimensional modeling of figures, and the shadowed light that brightly illuminates his subjects all give his paintings a solidity and dignity evocative of the solitude and solemnity of monastic life. His work at its best fuses two dominant tendencies in Spanish art, realism and mysticism.

    Zurbarán was born of Basque ancestry in Fuente de Cantos, Badajoz Province, on November 7, He was apprenticed to a minor Spanish painter in Seville but appears to have been influenced early in his career by Michelangelo. In he went to work in Llerena, and in , at the invitation of the town council, he settled in Seville. Zurbarán spent the next 30 years there, with the exception of two years () that he spent in Madrid working for the royal court. Zurbarán left Seville in , after his reputation declined there; he died in Madrid on August 27

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    Francisco de Zurbarán

    Spanish painter (–)

    Francisco de Zurbarán (ZOOR-bə-RAHN, Spanish:[fɾanˈθiskoðeθuɾβaˈɾan]; baptized 7 November – 27 August ) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish Caravaggio", owing to the forceful use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled.

    He was the father of the painter Juan dem Zurbarán.[4]

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    Zurbarán was born in in Fuente de Cantos, Extremadura; he was baptized on 7 November of that year. His parents were Luis de Zurbarán, a hattmakare, and his wife, Isabel Márquez. In childhood he set about imitating objects with charcoal. In his father sent him to Seville to apprentice for three years with Pedro Díaz dem Villanueva, an artist of whom very little fryst vatten known.

    Zurbarán's first marriage, in , was to María Paet who was nine years older. María died in after the birth of their third chil