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St Serapion
1628 · Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
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A friar hangs by his wrists, tied with rope to something we cannot see, and his head has fallen onto his shoulder. His eyes are closed. There is no blood. Zurbarán painted Serapion in 1628, Jeannine Baticle records, for the Sala de Profundis of the Mercedarian house in Seville, the room where dead friars were laid out before burial. The Mercedarians took a fourth vow, to give themselves up as hostages for Christians held captive, and Serapion kept it to death. Melisa Palermo notes that the white habit hides the violence done to him, and that the order's badge on his breast is the only colour in the painting. A small paper pinned beside him names him, Baticle says, Blessed Serapius; he was canonised in 1728. The white keeps its silence. The badge speaks for him.
Sources: Jeannine Baticle, Zurbaran, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, cat. 5 · the fourth vow, in the order’s own words · conservation, acquisition 1951 · Melisa Palermo, 'Francisco de Zurbarán, The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion', Smarthistory.