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(bapt. Fuente de Cantos, Extremadura, 7 Nov. 1598; d Madrid, 27 Aug. 1664). Spanish painter, active mainly in Seville, which lies about 100 km (60 miles) to the south of the village where he was born. He trained in Seville, 1614–17, then spent the next decade working at Llerana, near his birthplace. In 1627 he made his name with a powerful Christ on the Cross (Art Inst. of Chicago), painted for the Dominican monastery of S. Pablo in Seville, and its success led him to settle in the city in 1629. In 1634–5 he visited Madrid, where he worked for Philip IV (see Habsburg), painting for the Buen Retiro Palace a series of ten pictures on The Labours of Hercules and a large historical scene, The Defence of Cadiz (all now in the Prado, Madrid); apart from these pictures, a few portraits, and some masterly still lifes, he devoted himself almost entirely to religious images.

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His most characteristic works are single figures of monks and saints in meditation or prayer (for example, two paintings of St Franc

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Francisco de Zurbarán
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Alexandra Letvin
  • LAST REVIEWED: 21 March 2024
  • LAST MODIFIED: 21 March 2024
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199920105-0181

  • Brown, Jonathan. Francisco de Zurbarán. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991.

    A concise edition of Brown’s monograph on the artist first published in 1974. Forty color plates with short entries follow an introductory essay on the artist’s life, work, and reception.

  • Brown, Jonathan. Painting in Spain, 1500–1700. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1998.

    Within a larger survey of painting across the Iberian Peninsula, Zurbarán is covered in chapter 8, “The Art of Immediacy: Seville 1625–1640” (pp. 131–146) and chapter 12, “Seville at Mid-Century 1640–1660” (pp. 200–211). These chapters were published previously in Brown’s The Golden Age of Painting in Spain (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1991).

  • Cascales y Muñoz, José. Francisco de Zurbarán: su época, su vida y sus obras. Madrid: Fernando Fé, 1911.

    Foundational study of Zurbarán’s life and work, inclu

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    Juan de Zurbarán

    Painter from Spain (1620–1649)

    Juan de Zurbarán (1620–1649) was a Spanish Baroque painter.

    Juan de Zurbarán was born in Llerena, Badajoz, the son of Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), and joined in the workshop that his father owned in Seville, with which it is likely they collaborated on different paintings, including Still Life with Pots. The parental influence is evident in his work, but also his style reflects Dutch, Lombard and Neapolitan influences. He primarily painted still life genre.

    Some of his works include Still Life with Fruit and Goldfinch and Still Life with Basket of Apples, Quinces and Pomegranates, preserved in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, the Flowers and Fruits in Chinese Porcelain of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Plate with Apple and Orange Blossoms in a private collection, among other works autographed or attributed.

    In 1641 he married Mariana de Cuadros, daughter of a rich merchant, who died soon after. Juan de Zurbarán's career was cut short by his early death at age 29. He contracted the plague dur

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