ABC Wednesday - Z

Z is for Francisco de Zurbarán

                                                     (November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664)

I think I started my first round of ABC Wednesday somewhere around letter H and the time has flown by so quickly that we are now at Z. Again, my search for an artist whose name begins with the featured letter, netted me one that I was previously unfamiliar with.

I'm not very knowledgeable about religious painters of that period but his work reminds me of  Caravaggio, one of the old masters.  Here are a few paintings chosen by me with no particular knowledge of what exactly is representative of the painter. I like the paintings of the female saints best and being a fan of still life, I chose a couple of those as well.

                                                                          St. Casilda
                                                                         c. 1630-1645

St. Apollonia

The Virgin

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On the Second Day of Christmas

William Bouguereau

An Andy Warhol Christmas

The American artist and pop icon Andy Warhol was one of the first artists I admired as a middle-school kid in the early seventies.  But I only discovered his sweeter side when I looked at a package of Christmas cards about ten years ago. 

The following is an excerpt from a Washington Post article entitled A Look at Andy Warhol's Spiritual Side:

The man often called the Pope of Pop attended Mass several times a
week, worked in a soup kitchen, kept a crucifix and devotional book on
his bedside table and prayed daily with his mother, a devout Byzantine
Catholic who lived with him until her death in 1972.

(For a more complete post on the life and work of Andy Warhold, please see my post here)

 

Merry Christmas

Vittore Carpaccio

1460-1525

High Renaissance Painter
image courtesy of Ricci-Art