Agnus+Dei


 * Agnus Dei, meaning "Lamb of God," is a portrayal of the Savior as He is described in Isaiah 53:7. "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to teh slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."

A highly original Spanish artist, Zurbaran, until recently was not known beyond Spain. His works are rarely met in European museums and are highly appreciated by collectors. In 1598 Francisco de Zurbarán was born in the western Spanish town of Fuente de Cantos. His parents detected their son's artistic talent at an early stage. In 1614 he became an apprentice to the painter Pedro Diaz de Villanueva in Seville. In 1617 Zurbarán moved to Llerena, the region's most important town of that period, where he lived until 1628. His style, with massively simple figures and objects, clear, sober colors and eep solemnity of feeling expressed in thickly applied paint, made him the ideal painter of the austere Spanish style of the ear. In 1658 he moved to Madrid, where he entered the Santiago Order. In order to support himself he had to become an art dealer, though he was not successful in business. He died in Madrid in 1664 in poverty. References []

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