His work is characterized by a combination of striking light-dark contrasts and a rudimentary, slightly makeshift painting style developed during an apprenticeship under an obscure artist in the ...

SOME years ago I travelled to the National Gallery, in London, to see the world famous Zurbaran paintings of Joseph and his brothers. I, like many others from the North-East, had to travel nearly ...

Painting, I’m told, is out of favor in academic circles. Today’s art history students regard the medium as patriarchal, imperialist, colonialist, irrelevant, and racist, among other terms of ...

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The works by Zurbaran have been at Auckland Castle for 250 years A deal to keep the set of 17th Century paintings hanging in the home of the Bishop of Durham has been agreed. It was hoped the 12 ...

The works by Zurbaran have been at Auckland Castle for more than 250 years A deal for the sale of historic paintings by Spanish artist Francisco Zurbaran and Auckland Castle has been agreed after ...

Francisco de Zurbaran is often called the "painter of monks." Many of his masterly paintings are in fact haunting portraits of saints: He painted more than 50 versions of Saint Francis of Assisi.

The works by Zurbaran have been at Auckland Castle for 250 years A deal to keep the set of 17th Century paintings hanging in the home of the Bishop of Durham has been agreed. It was hoped the 12 ...

A deal to keep the set of 17th Century paintings hanging in the home of the Bishop of Durham has been agreed. It was hoped the 12 works by Spanish artist Francisco Zurbaran would stay at Auckland ...