Zurbaran: Selected Paintings 1625-1664 - Couverture rigide

Zurbaran, Francisco De

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3829605455 ISBN 13 : 9783829605458

Editeur : Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH, 2011

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) was one of the great Spanish painters of the Baroque period. Today, his idiosyncratic, very Catholic imagery fascinates us even as it has become alien and, in essence, inaccessible. In its aesthetic-religious dimension, his work-- indebted to the Spanish mysticism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--possesses a unique depth and rigor. Christ on the cross, dead martyrs and saints in reverie, meditating monks, the superiors of monastic orders that today have almost ceased to exist: In his mostly dark paintings, they are depicted so realistically, one feels one could reach out and touch them. And yet they also seem to be emissaries from another world. For Zurbarán, a contemporary of Velázquez and Murillo, painting and religious meditation were complementary aspects of spiritual observance. Perhaps it is precisely this quality in his art that makes his paintings the center of our interest today.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3829605455
• ISBN 13: 9783829605458
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Éditeur: Nooteboom Cees