This artist also painted a hooded monk with ripped robe clutching an upside-down (*) skull up to his chest in a painting of a saint "in meditation.
This artist may have intended an homage to the Virgin Mary with a still-life in which a plate full of lemons, a basket of oranges, and a cup of water with a rose in its saucer are spaced at equal intervals. The elderly title character of another of this artist's paintings instructs a young novice in the ways of his religious order as hooded, white-robed monks prepare for a meal. He unusually showed four nails rather than three used to crucify Jesus in his painting of Christ Crucified. St. Hugh in the Refectory is one of many paintings this man did for the Carthusians. This artist also painted a hooded monk with ripped robe clutching an upside-down (*) skull up to his chest in a painting of a saint "in meditation." The title saint of a painting by this artist wears a badge of the Mercedarians and slumps his head to the right as he dies with both of his arms tied to a tree by ropes. For 10 points, name this artist of The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion and many paintings of Saint Francis, a Baroque Spanish painter from Seville.
This artist may have intended an homage to the Virgin Mary with a still-life in which a plate full of lemons, a basket of oranges, and a cup of water with a rose in its saucer are spaced at equal intervals.
Francisco de Zurbaran