OIL PAINTING: Still life
The bleak, austere piety of Zurbaran's early paintings of saints, painted for more severe religious orders, made him the ideal painter of simple doctrinal altarpieces expressed in clear, sober colour, with figures of massive solidity and solemnity, and with a Tenebrism owing little to
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio or Ribera, but developed straight out of southern Spanish traditions of unidealized representations. For the same reason, Zurbaran was one of the finest still-life painters - Still life.