by Lee on October 27, 2011
Zurbaran was born at Fuente de Cantos in Extremadura, a province on the border with Portugal. His father was a haberdasher who sent his son, then aged 16, to Seville to work as an apprentice to the artist Pedro Diaz de Villanueva. None of Villenueva’s paintings have survived but Zurbaran’s earliest painting, Immaculate Conception, shows [...]
by Lee on October 27, 2011
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