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Francisco Zurbaran - The Ecstasy of St. FrancisThe Ecstasy of St. FrancisFrancisco Zurbaran

Born in 1181 or 1182 in Assisi as the son of a wealthy draper, he died in poverty in the same town on 3 October 1226. Francis' life of poverty, humility, selflessness and serene neighbourly love made the order of Friars Minor which he founded one of the most widespread religious orders in the entire...

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Francisco Zurbaran - Apostle St AndrewApostle St AndrewFrancisco Zurbaran

Zurbarán's picture of St Andrew is in marked contrast to Ribera's dramatic representation of the crucifixion of the saint. There is the same close observation of detail, but Zurbarán's picture has the calm majesty seen in the work of El Greco. These various qualities Zurbarán blends into a unity wit...

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Francisco Zurbaran - St Francis of Assisi Receiving the StigmataSt Francis of Assisi Receiving the StigmataFrancisco Zurbaran

Zurbaran was born in a village in the Spanish province of Badajoz and became one of the most important artists of the Seville school. During the 17th century Seville was one of the most active artistic centres in Spain and was also the birthplace of Velázquez and Murillo. Zurbaran's naturalism broug...

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Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Saint Francis in MeditationSaint Francis in MeditationCaravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi

Saint Francis in Meditation (c. 1604/06 or 1607/10), is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, in the Museo Civico, Cremona. This is one of two paintings of almost identical measurements showing Saint Francis of Assisi contemplating a skull (see Saint Francis in Prayer) - neither is documented...

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Francisco Zurbaran - The Sudarium of St VeronicaThe Sudarium of St VeronicaFrancisco Zurbaran

The Sudarium of St Veronica (1658-61) (Oil on canvas, 104 x 84 cm) is now in the Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao. There are 14 versions of this subject painted by Zurbarán with illusionistic effects.

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Francisco Zurbaran - Saint SerapionSaint SerapionFrancisco Zurbaran

A 1628 oil on canvas painting. Saint Serapion is depicted by Zurbaran in a quasi-crucified pose, standing with each hand bound by ropes and chain to an overhead horizontal pole. The painting stops at the figure's knee level, while the strain placed on his arms is indicated by the heavy hanging folds...

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Francisco Zurbaran - The Death of St. BonaventuraThe Death of St. BonaventuraFrancisco Zurbaran

The church of the Franciscan college San Buenaventura in Seville was adorned by a narrative cycle on the life of St Bonaventura, the renovator of the Franciscan order. Between 1626 and 1628 Herrera painted the four scenes describing the saint's youth, placed on the left wall of the nave; Zurbarán wa...

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Francisco Zurbaran - St. Elizabeth of PortugalSt. Elizabeth of PortugalFrancisco Zurbaran

Zurbarán at his best may be said to have given new life to certain qualities found in the Mozarabic miniatures and Romanesque panel paintings - majesty, serenity and brilliance of colour. He had already made his name, and was a court painter - though he had not yet come under the not altogether feli...

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Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - St Francis In EcstasySt Francis In EcstasyCaravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi

Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy (or The Ecstasy of Saint Francis) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is held in the Wadsworth Atheneum[1] in Hartford, Connecticut. The painting was the first of Caravaggio's religious canvasses, and is thought to date...

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Francisco Zurbaran - St. Anthony AbbotSt. Anthony AbbotFrancisco Zurbaran

St Anthony Abbot (after 1640) (Oil on canvas, 177 x 117 cm) is now in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. The old man's gesture suggest that this was one of two paintings flanking a central image.

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Francisco Zurbaran - St. CasildaSt. CasildaFrancisco Zurbaran

The painting of St Casilda follows a typology invented by Zurbaran and repeated in other paintings of martyr saints. The saint is represented full-length in half profile, with the appearance and rich clothing of a young woman of the 17th century. She is shown taking part in a procession, set against...

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Francisco Zurbaran - St. Hugo of Grenoble in the Carthusian RefectorySt. Hugo of Grenoble in the Carthusian RefectoryFrancisco Zurbaran

Zurbarán's painting of a Carthusian refectory intensely reflects the ideal of this order of hermit monks: simplicity, sobriety and quiet contemplation. The room is unadorned, but for a painting showing the Virgin and Child with John the Baptist in the wilderness - an inspiration to the monks. An arc...

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Francisco Zurbaran - Saint Luke as a Painter before Christ on the CrossSaint Luke as a Painter before Christ on the CrossFrancisco Zurbaran

Saint Luke as a Painter before Christ on the Cross (c. 1660) (Oil on canvas, 105 x 84 cm) is now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. It is assumed by some scholars that St Luke is a self-portrait of Zurbarán.

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Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Nativity With St Francis And St LawrenceNativity With St Francis And St LawrenceCaravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi

The Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (also known as The Adoration) is a painting from 1609 by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio . It was stolen on October 16, 1969 from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily. The painting is large measuring almost six square metres (actual size ...

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Giovanni Bellini - St. Francis in the WildernessSt. Francis in the WildernessGiovanni Bellini

St. Francis in the Wilderness is a painting by Giovanni Bellini, who started this painting in 1475 and finished it around 1480. This painting is oil on panel, which recalls Mantegna. The work is signed IOANNES BELLINUS on a small chart visible in the lower left corner. It portrays St. Francis of Ass...

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Francisco Zurbaran - Christ on the CrossChrist on the CrossFrancisco Zurbaran

In 1627, while still resident in Llerena, Zurbarán painted this spectacular picture, that made him famous, for the Dominicans. It was placed in a small oratory chapel and made a strong impression. The represented drama in the composition is increased by the overpowering light, which heightens then t...

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Francisco Zurbaran - Saint James of the MarchesSaint James of the MarchesFrancisco Zurbaran

Saint James of the Marches (1391-1476) (Italian: Giacomo della Marca, Spanish: San Jacobo de la Marca) was an Italian Franciscan Friar Minor, preacher and writer. He is generally represented holding in his hand a chalice, out of which a snake is escaping – an allusion to some endeavours of heretics ...

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Francisco Zurbaran - Saint Margaret in AntiochSaint Margaret in AntiochFrancisco Zurbaran

The painting is probably a portrait of a lady dressed as shepherdess. The serpent is the attribute of the saint. The apocryphal legend of the life and death of Margaret of Antioch was known in the western world as early as the 7th century. Cast out by her heathen father, she was martyred in the Dioc...

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Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - Saint Francis in PrayerSaint Francis in PrayerCaravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi

Saint Francis in Prayer (c. 1602-1604) is a painting from the Italian master Caravaggio, in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome. The painting is unrecorded and therefore difficult to date, or even to distinguish the original from later copies. John Gash (see references, below) identifies a ...

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Francisco Zurbaran - St AgathaSt AgathaFrancisco Zurbaran

Born in Catania, Sicily, at the foot of Mount Etna, Agatha decided to remain a virgin and dedicate her life to Christ. The Prefect of Sicily, Quintian, hearing of her great beauty, tried to seduce her. Faced with her rejection, he sent her into a brothel, but even there she miraculously preserved he...

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Francisco Zurbaran - Vision of Brother Andrés SalmerónVision of Brother Andrés SalmerónFrancisco Zurbaran

After producing a trial piece for the Hieronymite monastery at Guadalupe in 1638, Zurbarán signed a contract on 2 March 1639, which obligated him to supply eight pictures for the sacristy, each portraying a noted brother of the order. These paintings remain in their original place and constitute the...

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El Greco - Dominikos Theotokopoulos - St. Andrew and St. FrancisSt. Andrew and St. FrancisEl Greco - Dominikos Theotokopoulos

St. Andrew and St. Francis (1595) is a oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect El Greco. El Greco would have been aware of the grand series of pairs of Saints painted by Navarrete for the chapels of the Church of the Escorial, the commission interrupted by t...

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Francisco Zurbaran - Vision of Blessed Alonso RodriguezVision of Blessed Alonso RodriguezFrancisco Zurbaran

Vision of Blessed Alonso Rodriguez is an oil on canvas painting, now housed in the Museo de la Academia de San Fernando, Madrid. Zurbarán attains religious feeling by realistic simplicity, an extreme density, the boldness of his colours and the calculated awkwardness of his composition.

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Francisco Zurbaran - Adoration of the MagiAdoration of the MagiFrancisco Zurbaran

In 1638 Zurbarán received order from the Carthusians of Jerez which consisted principally of two parts: five large and two small canvases for the monumental altarpiece of the church, and eight portraits of distinguished members of the order, accompanied by two images of angels with censers, which we...

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Francisco Zurbaran - The Adoration of the ShepherdsThe Adoration of the ShepherdsFrancisco Zurbaran

In 1638 Zurbarán received order from the Carthusians of Jerez which consisted principally of two parts: five large and two small canvases for the monumental altarpiece of the church, and eight portraits of distinguished members of the order, accompanied by two images of angels with censers, which we...

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Caravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi - The Conversion of St PaulThe Conversion of St PaulCaravaggio - Michelangelo Merisi

The Conversion of Saint Paul (or Conversion of Saul), by the Italian painter Caravaggio, is housed in the Odescalchi Balbi Collection of Rome. It is one of at least two paintings by Caravaggio of the same subject, the Conversion of Paul. Another is The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascu...