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Zurbaran's Virgin Saints, and their modern-day modistas

Zurbaran's Virgin Saints, and their modern-day modistas

Spain's Golden Age, in the 16th and 17th centuries, produced some of the world's greatest painters: Zurbaran, Murillo, Valdes Leal. They painted Virgins, saints, and other religious figures, feeding the demand for holy portraits for churches, convents, monasteries and hospitals, both in Spain and in the New World, with its rapidly expanding colonial cities such as Lima and Buenos Aires.

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