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Title: Francisco de Zurbaran; his epoch, his life and his works
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Cascales y Muñoz, José, 1865- Evans, Nellie Seelye, "Mrs. Dudley Evans," tr
Subjects: Zurbarán, Francisco, 1598-1664
Publisher: New York, Priv. print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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A little while afterward appears the crafty and pompous
figure of a mercenary friar whose frown like a Sevillian
bull-fighter's, and whose mouth like that of a Triana
town-crier seem to have been seen and painted by the
Velasquez of The Beggars; at the last, not far from this
one, the sweetly mystical figure of the Beatified Henry
Suzón, a most beautiful dreamer who presses to his bosom
a bistoury, smiling with happy grief or anguished delight.
His lifted head, wrapped in a soft crepuscular hue,
without doubt, might be attributed to Murillo. Then
will someone say—Zurbarán had no resolute, clear and
artistic personality? . . .
Indeed, he has; but we must not seek it in the show-
iest pictures, nor in the most celebrated ones, nor in the
pompous and somewhat oratorical conception of the
Apotheosis of St. Thomas Aquinas which we admire in
the Museum of Seville. Neither in the Visit of St.
Bruno to Tope Urban II in spite of the marvellous fine-
ness of both heads. We must not seek it either in the

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