Visión de San Francisco de Asís (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao)
Summary
Español: El lienzo, que es una obra del taller del pintor extremeño Francisco de Zurbarán, representa a San Francisco de Asís († 1226), fundador de la Orden franciscana, teniendo una visión.
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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Date
1600 - 1699
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Wikimedia Commons
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public domain