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Francisco de Zurbarn was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his stilllifes. Zurbarn gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled.
Zurbarn was born in 1598 in Fuente de Cantos, Extremadura he was baptized on Novemberof that year. His parents were Luis de Zurbarn, a haberdasher, and his wife, Isabel Mrquez. In childhood he set about imitating objects with charcoal. In 1614 his father sent him to Seville to apprentice for three years with Pedro Daz de Villanueva, an artist of whom very little is known.
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