Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Francisco de Zurbarán |
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Birthdate | November 07, 1598 |
Birth Place | Spain |
Age (in 2024) | 425 Years Old |
Zodiac | Scorpio |
Occupation | Painter |
Francisco de Zurbarán is best known as Painter who has born on November 07, 1598 in Spain. Currently, Francisco de Zurbarán is 425 years, 11 months and 28 days old. Francisco de Zurbarán will celebrate 426th birthday on Thursday, 7th of November 2024. Below the countdown to Francisco de Zurbarán upcoming birthday.
Famous for his religious and still-life works, this seventeenth-century Spanish painter allied himself with the Baroque and Caravaggisti artistic movements. His best known paintings include The Death of St. Bonaventure and Saint Francis in Meditation.
Early in his artistic career, he was commissioned to create work for the Seville Cathedral and the San Pablo El Real Dominican monastery.
His largest-scale work is an elaborate altarpiece created for the Church of St. Thomas Aquinas in Seville, Spain.
He was born in in Fuente de Cantos, Spain to Luis de Zurbaran and Isabel Marquez. His first marriage, to Maria Paet, resulted in three children and ended with Paet's death in 1624; he later married a widow named Beatriz de Morales and, after Morales' death, a woman named Leonor de Torder.
Fellow Spanish artist Diego Velazquez became one of de Zurbaran's primary artistic patrons (the other was Velazquez's patron, King Philip IV of Spain).
Francisco de Zurbarán is 425 years old today.
Francisco de Zurbarán was born on November 07, 1598 in Spain.
Francisco de Zurbarán zodiac sign is Scorpio.
Francisco de Zurbarán was best known as Painter.
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1989 | Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. |
1989 | David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City. |
1989 | East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests. |
1990 | Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland. |
1991 | Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA. |
1994 | WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast. |
1996 | NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor. |
1996 | ADC Airlines Flight 086 crashes on approach to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, killing all 144 people on board. |
2000 | The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States. |
2000 | The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. |
2004 | Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day state of emergency as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. |
2007 | The Jokela school shooting in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland, takes place, resulting in the death of nine people. |
2012 | An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people. |
2017 | Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers, with a security guard killed and 20 people wounded; ISIS claims responsibility for the attack. |
2020 | Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States. |
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2016 | The death of Jimmy Young, British singer and radio personality (b. 1921) |
2017 | The death of Roy Halladay, American baseball player (b. 1977) |
2017 | The death of Carl Sargeant, Welsh Assembly minister (b. 1968) |
2017 | The death of James R. Thompson Jr., American naval officer and engineer, 5th Director of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Janette Sherman, American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth and member of the House of Lords (b. 1948) |
2021 | The death of Dean Stockwell, American actor (b. 1936) |
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