Zurbarán review – ecstatic visions, primitive surrealism … and the finest loincloths ever painted

National Gallery, London The 17th-century Spanish master painted with a supernatural intensity that will hit you just as hard as it did his original viewers The word “visionary” is done to death but the 17th-century Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán demands it: he paints supernatural things naturally and natural things supernaturally. Space becomes different in his world, melting distance and erasing the barrier between you and the picture. The very first painting in this dreamlike ecsta...

By Jonathan Jones