The National Gallery in London has opened a major retrospective show on Francisco de Zurbarán, which will later travel to the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago. The catalogue includes essays by two former curatorial assistants funded by the CEEH through the scholarship program established at the London gallery in 2018: Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, who contributes a chapter entitled “The Lure of the Americas,” and Daniel Sobrino Ralston, currently an associate curator and author of the closing chapter, “Intimate and Sacred: The Late Paintings”, who is also co-curator of the exhibition with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper.

Furthermore, the CEEH is joining the impetus for research on the Extremaduran painter generated by this major exhibition with a monograph to be published in the coming months. Its author, Javier Portús, is Head of the Collection of Spanish Baroque Painting at the Prado Museum and a specialist on the painter. In Francisco de Zurbarán, Distinguished Painter, readers will find a window into one of the most complex artistic personalities of the Spanish Golden Age, as well as into the artistic dialogues established with him by historians and painters of the 19th and 20th centuries.