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Exhibitions

Francisco de Zurbarán had a Hollywood sense of drama

But there are disconcerting uncertainties in the 17th century Spaniard’s paintings

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

5 April 2014

9:00 AM

Zurbarán: Master of Spain’s Golden Age

Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, until 25 May

It seems suitable that just round the corner from the Zurbarán exhibition at the Palais des Beaux Arts is the Musée Magritte. Surrealism was in the air of 20th-century Belgium, just as much as it was in the atmosphere of Spain. And of course in many cases its leading figures — Buñuel, Dalí, René Magritte — were lapsed Catholics.

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