The Young Virgin, ca. 1632–33, Oil on canvas, 46 x 37 in. (116.8 x 94 cm), Paintings, Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, Fuente de Cantos 1598–1664 Madrid), The subject of Zurbarán’s painting is the young Virgin Mary. According to medieval legend, she lived as a girl in the Temple in Jerusalem, where she devoted herself to praying and sewing vestments. This was a subject particularly popular in Italian and Spanish paintings of the seventeenth century, with the Virgin serving as a model of behavior for young women
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