Christ on the Cross, Francisco de Zurbaran
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Christ on the Cross
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Property from a Private Collection
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN
Fuente de Cantos, Badajoz 1598 - 1664 Madrid
Christ on the Cross
signed lower right: francod... [Zurbarán]
and inscribed on the titulus of the cross: IESVS NAZARENUS REX IV/ DEORVM with translations in Hebrew and Greek above
oil on canvas
267 x 189 cm.; 105 x 74½ in.
Francisco de Zurbaran (1598—1664) was the genius of the "golden age" of Spanish painting, has a reputation as a mystical and even somewhat "sinister" artist. He is often called the "Spanish Caravaggio" - however, not because of the stormy life, consisting of adventures and crimes, but because for quite a long time Zurbaran used Caravaggio's sharp contrasts of light and shadow.
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