NEW YORK — For much of European art history, religious authorities ... full-length portraits of the biblical Jacob and 11 of his 12 sons, painted in the 1640s by the earthy Spanish master ...

The video below highlights the year of technical analysis on the paintings carried out at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort ... Zurbarán’s Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland ...

All appear in the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis, in which the dying Jacob prophesies the fates of the founders-to-be of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. After nearly four centuries, the canvases ...