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| Francisco de Zurbaran art links |
Francisco de Zurbarán Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
St Lawrence, 1636
The Childhood of the Virgin, 1658-60
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Francisco de Zurbaran at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Saint Bonaventure's Body Lying in State, 1629
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)
(Click on "ampliar imagen" for a huge enlargement of the image)
Apoteósis de Santo Tomás de Aquino
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)
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Jesús crucificado expirante
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)
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La Virgen de las Cuevas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)
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San Hugo en el Refectorio
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
4 paintings online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
4 paintings online
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
St. Peter Nolasco Recovering the Image of the Virgin, 1630
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
3 works by or related to the artist
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
St. Francis in Meditation, 1645-55
Fray Guillermo de San Julián, ca.1636
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Agnus Dei, ca.1636-40
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Saint Peter Nolasco Recovering the Image of the Virgin of El Puig, 1630
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
The Vision of St. Anthony of Padua, ca.1630
Lázaro Galdiano Foundation Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb
Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)
The Annunciation, 1638-39
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Saint François
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo San Gregorio, National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain (in Spanish)
A larger image is in the museum database, which unfortunately cannot be linked to. Click "Ficha Completa" to see detail records for each item.
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Immaculate Conception
Sant Francesc d'Assís segons la visió del papa Nicolau V
Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City
Saint Lucy
Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City
Saint Rufina
National Museum of Art of Romania
Saint Blasius
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Use the "right" arrow to advance to Sala 15 in order to see 3 paintings by Zurbarán
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Poznan National Museum, Poznan, Poland
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
St. Francis Contemplating a Skull, ca.1635
Still Life
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Francisco de Zurbaran at The Art Renewal Center
Francisco de Zurbaran at The Artchive
Francisco de Zurbaran in the Web Gallery of Art 
Francisco de Zurbaran in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Francisco de Zurbaran at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Leipzig, Germany
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Spanish Still Life Painters in the Golden Age
Part of still life painter Linda Mann's website
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Francisco de Zurbaran 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Saint Francis in Meditation, 1635-39
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Masters of Art: Zurbaran
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