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Image: Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Casilda, about 1635, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Zurbarán exhibition highlights

Online tour and Q&A

Tours
Date
Monday, 15 June 2026
Time
1 - 2 pm BST
Location
Online
Audience
For Members

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Members: £10

This is an online event, exclusive to Members, hosted on Zoom.

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A recording of this event will be made available to all ticket holders in the days following the event.

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Take a virtual walk through ‘Zurbarán’ at the premiere of our exhibition highlights film. Experience the exhibition without the crowds, zoom in and see details only possible online, and hear special insights from the exhibition curators.

A giant in the history of Spanish art, Francisco de Zurbarán was one of the great painters of 17th-century Seville, a centre of global trade. Zurbarán’s vivid paintings, from small still lifes to soaring altarpieces, burst with naturalism and convey intense spiritual experiences.

At this exclusive online Members’ tour, exhibition curators Francesca Whitlum-Cooper and Daniel Ralston walk you through the show. Along the way, visit religious commissions and paintings of staggering size, like ‘Colossal Head’ and intimate domestic works like ‘Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose’.

Join us live to ask questions after the tour or save for later to catch up on demand.

Exhibition organised by the National Gallery, London, Musée du Louvre, Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Your speakers

Dr Daniel Sobrino Ralston
Dr Daniel Sobrino Ralston is the CEEH Associate Curator of Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery, where he has co-curated 'Zurbarán' (2026) and 'José María Velasco: A View of Mexico' (2025). He has published and lectured  on  Spanish art from the 17th and 19th centuries, contributing to recent exhibition catalogues at the Fundación MAPFRE, 'Raimundo de Madrazo' (2025); the Gallerie d’Italia, 'Velázquez. Un segno grandioso' (2024); and the Kimbell Art Museum, 'Murillo: From Heaven to Earth' (2022). He received his PhD from Columbia University.
Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper is the Curator of Later Italian, Spanish and French Paintings at the National Gallery. As well as 'Zurbaran' (2026), she has curated 'The Last Caravaggio' (2024), 'Discover Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast' (2023), 'Poussin and the Dance' (2021) and ‘Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life’ (2019) at the Gallery. She received her PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection, New York.

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A recording of this event will be made available to all ticket holders in the days following the event.

This recording will be available until the exhibition closes.

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Automatic closed captioning is available for this event.