Thursday, July 7, 2011

Zurbaran is one of the great Spanish baroque painters. Also, his name sounds like one of those mechanical fortune tellers in a cabinet.

Because Spain during the 17th century was all about the Inquisition, painters-- Zubaran included-- painted saints and religious allegories to keep the witch hunters at bay. Zurbaran's saints look alternately like Ken Russell film stills, and Klansmen.
His St. Francises are the best.

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