“Zurbarán” at the National Gallery

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The first major UK exhibition devoted to Francisco de Zurbarán in more than 30 years opens at the National Gallery. Most celebrated for the austere, contemplative portraits of saints that made him a leading painter of Seville, Zurbarán worked alongside Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo as one of the defining figures of 17th-century Spanish art. This survey of more than 40 works across seven thematic rooms reveals the full range of his career: from vast altarpieces produced for Seville’s religious brotherhoods and luminous still lifes to prestigious royal commissions and the more intimate devotional paintings of his later years. Two newly attributed works, “Alcarraza on a Plate” and “Still Life with Four Vessels,” both c.1650, showcase his still-life practice and the recent developments in scholarship that continue to expand his legacy.

^{Detail from Francisco de Zurbarán, “Saint Casilda,” c.1635. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza}