Agnus Dei
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The San Diego Museum of Art asks outright: still life or devotional symbolic painting? Emilio Orozco's term holds both, bodegones a lo divino, still lifes made sacred.
The lamb is a merino, like every lamb Zurbarán painted, Miguel Ángel Aparicio found, and it lies with its legs tied. Of its own version the Prado notes an animal still alive, in an unmistakably sacrificial posture.
Here he rings the head with a halo, which for Aparicio sharpens the icon's symbolic meaning, and letters the canvas TANQUAM AGNUS, words Aparicio traces to Isaiah. The still life has been given a name.
Sources: San Diego Museum of Art, Spanish Art, entry for Agnus Dei, 1947.36, read 2026-09-24 · Museo Nacional del Prado, 'A lamb (Agnus Dei)', Francisco de Zurbarán, P007293, read 2026-09-24 · Miguel Ángel Aparicio Tovar, 'El ganado ovino en la obra de Zurbarán', Olivenza 2004, pp. 99-104, read 2026-09-24
He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.
Isaiah 53:7 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
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