GUEST WORK
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN
Friar Pedro Machado
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
This painting of Friar Pedro Machado (?1609) – a famous theologian from the Mercedarian convent in Burgos, whose friars were dedicated to the redemption of captives – originates from the library of the Convento de La Merced in Seville and was one of a series of eleven portraits of friars of the Order, produced in around 1630.
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN
Friar Pedro Machado
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
This painting of Friar Pedro Machado (?1609) – a famous theologian from the Mercedarian convent in Burgos, whose friars were dedicated to the redemption of captives – originates from the library of the Convento de La Merced in Seville and was one of a series of eleven portraits of friars of the Order, produced in around 1630.
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) achieved great success with his series of paintings of illustrious men from the Church, portraits of monumental figures, slightly larger than life-size and depicted against neutral backgrounds, all of them impregnated with a sculptural solidity, marked by holiness and wisdom – a genre to which he later returned in the series of paintings of the Apostles that is housed today at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga.
OPENING
September 19th | 18h
Exhibition booklet
OPENING
September 19th | 18h
Exhibition booklet