Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Welcome to the UK’s first-ever exhibition dedicated to Francisco de Zurbarán. We’ve brought together his most incredible masterpieces from all over the world right here to London, including beautiful and rare still lifes by his talented son, Juan de Zurbarán.

This show follows Zurbarán’s entire journey as an artist. We’ve reunited massive religious paintings that were originally designed to wow audiences on a grand scale, but we’re also showing his smaller, more personal works created for family homes.

A true giant of Spanish art, Zurbarán lived and worked in 17th-century Seville, a city at the heart of global trade. Whether he was painting a tiny still life or a towering altarpiece, his work feels incredibly vivid and real, capturing deep spiritual moments with a lifelike touch.

Zurbarán was famous for the way he painted fabric—he could capture the shimmer of expensive clothes just as perfectly as the simple, heavy robes of a monk. He also found beauty in the everyday. By including familiar things like a ceramic jar, a wicker basket, or a delicate rose, he brings his extraordinary scenes right into our world today.