Zurbaran

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Authors: Santiago Alcolea I Gil, Francisco Zubaran
Publisher: Poligrafa
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 1378153

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128

ISBN: 8434311720
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9788434311725
ASIN: 8434311720

Publication Date: April 1, 2008

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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 towards 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 St. 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, towards 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, Professor 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 career, dividing it into four stylistic phases, and re-proposing his relevance for our times.