Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbarán is, along with Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, among the most important Spanish painters of the 17th century. Initially regarded as a Caravaggist marked by monastic asceticism, he was progressively recognised in the 20th century as a prodigious colourist and celebrated for his very personal style, which combines the simplification of volumes with striking naturalism. The National Gallery in London, the Musée du Louvre and the Art Institute of Chicago have therefore decided to join forces to present a retrospective that will allow visitors to discover or revisit his painting, to better understand it, and to be dazzled by the modernity and plastic force of his compositions.