Agnus Dei (Zurbarán)
Lamb of God (in Latin, Agnus Dei) (1635–40) is an oil painting by the Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán. It is housed in the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain.
The Lamb of God is an allusion to Christ's sacrificial death to save humanity.[1]
References
- ↑ "Agnus Dei". Museo Nacional del Prado. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
External links
- Zurbarán, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on this painting (see index)
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