
Sketch of Francisco de Zurbaran's Sainte Engracia, in Strasbourg's museum.
He is one of my most recent and beloved loves, seen first in Strasbourg. I saw his Saint Francois in Lyon, and (I believe) another of his intense women on loan in the Orsay.
"Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum." (John Updike)
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