Lecture 36: Baroque Painting in Spain
Francisco de Zurbarán:
Saint Serapion, 1628, oil on canvas, 47 ¼ x 41” (1.2 x 1 m), Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
El Greco:
The Agony in the Garden, about 1590–1595, oil on canvas,
40 ¼ x 44 ¾” (102 x 114 cm), Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,
Ohio, USA.
The Burial of Count Orgaz, 1586, oil on canvas, 16’ x 11’ 10”
(4.9 x 3.6 m), Church of S. Tomé, Toledo, Spain.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo:
The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1667/1670, oil on canvas,
7’ 9” x 8’ 6 ¾” (2.363 x 2.610 m), National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., USA.
Diego Velázquez:
Los Borrachos (The Drinkers), c. 1628, oil on canvas, 5’ 5” x 7’ 4 ½”
(165 x 225 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
The Maids of Honor (Las Meniñas), 1656, oil on canvas,
10’ 5 ¼” x 9’ ¾” (318 x 276 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Portrait of Innocent X, c. 1649, oil on canvas, 55 x 45 ¼”
(139.7 x 115 cm), Rome, Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome, Italy.
The Surrender at Breda (Las Lanzas), c. 1634–35, oil on canvas,
10’ 1” x 12’ ½” (307 x 367 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
The Water Seller of Seville, c. 1620, oil on canvas, 42 x 32”
(106.7 x 81 cm), Wellington Museum, London, Great Britain.Works Discussed