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Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) pasó la mayor parte de su vida artística en Sevilla, donde realizó una serie con trece personajes del Génesis representados a tamaño natural: Jacob y sus doce hijos. Aunque pudo ser fruto de un encargo de las Américas, fue subastada en Inglaterra a mediados del (...)

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two remarkable paintings are often overshadowed by (...)

Anna Tuori is one of the most original and versatile Finnish painters of her generation. This publication provides a comprehensive overview of her continually evolving work and her playful, intriguing, and melancholic oddball world, the center of which is always painting. The book includes a (...)

During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas. The artists would often overstate the beauty of their models, rendering them more beautiful than they actually were.The contemporary representation of the Mother of Christ, however, tended to (...)