Starker than VelÃ¡zquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco ZurbarÃ¡n (1598-1664) is easily among the finest of seventeenth-century Spanish painters. Apprenticed in Seville, he quickly

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Starker than VelÃ¡zquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco ZurbarÃ¡n (1598-1664) is easily among the finest of seventeenth-century Spanish painters. Apprenticed in Seville, he quickly gravitated toward the use of chiaroscuro, possibly having seen paintings by Caravaggio there: he was later to become known as â€œthe Spanish Caravaggio.â€ But ZurbarÃ¡nâ€™s temperament, as it is realized in his painting, appears more melancholy, and therefore less foreboding, than Caravaggioâ€™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 â€œApotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas,â€ now housed in the Seville Museum. It was around this time that ZurbarÃ¡nâ€™s star reached its peak, as he was appointed court painter to Philip IV. Later, toward the end of his life, ZurbarÃ¡nâ€™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, Santiago Alcolea, a scholar of seventeenth-century Spanish art and the author of previous books on VelÃ¡zquez and El Greco, provides us with an overview of ZurbarÃ¡nâ€™s artistic career, dividing it into four stylistic phases and reproposing his relevance for our times.
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Brand Brand: Poligrafa
Manufacturer Ediciones Polígrafa
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations throughout
ReleaseDate 2008-11-01
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EANs 9788434311725

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Poligrafa
Manufacturer	Ediciones Polígrafa
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations throughout
ReleaseDate	2008-11-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9788434311725

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