Zurbarán

Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbaran, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, June 18–October 6.

Murillo has sunk to the rank of a second-rate master; Ribera and Zurbaran are yet hardly known outside Spain.

The dark, mild face of the figure immediately behind the Emperor is supposed to be the portrait of Zurbaran.

A daub by an unknown artist becomes a work of Zurbaran, if the stranger appears to be greatly interested in that painter.

It is a transcript from the religious life around him that Zurbaran here sets before us.

It was in the streets and convents of Seville therefore that Zurbaran found his models.