ZURBARÁN SELECTED PAINTINGS 1625

Francisco de Zurbarán (15981664) was one of the great Spanish painters of the Baroque period. Today, his idiosyncratic, very Cathol ic 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 cr oss, dead martyrs and saints in reverie, meditating monks, the superiors of monastic orders that today have almost ceased to exist.