The Frick Collection hosts the North American debut of Francisco de Zurbarán's Jacob and His Twelve Sons, a Spanish Golden Age series with mysterious origins.

Jews and non-Jews who want to know more about the Bible, the Tanakh, who want to know why biblical figures acted as they did, and about the twelve sons of the patriarch Jacob and some of their ...

It begins with the Spanish baroque master Francisco de Zurbarán, who in the 1640s made thirteen paintings of Jacob, the Old Testament patriarch, and his sons, who founded the twelve tribes of Israel.

My Hebrew name is Ya’akov, Hebrew for Jacob. When I celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah years ago at the age of 13, the observance coincidentally coincided with readings in the ...

‘Jacob and His Twelve Sons’: Zurbarán’s Biblical All-Stars. NEW YORK — For much of European art history, religious authorities had the whip hand when it came to painting: They controlled ...

“Jacob and His Twelve Sons” is a portrait series, a specialty of the Seville-born Francisco de Zurbarán, who was a storied painter in 17th-century Spain.

Gather around, I add, that I may tell you what will happen if you visit “Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings From Auckland Castle” at the Meadows Museum.

NEW YORK — For much of European art history, religious authorities had the whip hand when it came to painting: They controlled the imagery, owned the prime real estate and could pay top ducat ...