Featuring twelve monumental canvases by the Spanish Baroque master Francisco de Zurbarán, displayed at the Israel Museum in 2018 on loan from Auckland Castle, Durham, England, this sumptuous volume presents a wonderful opportunity to explore art from Spain’s Golden Age. Painted over a period of five years from 1640 to 1645, each one of Jacob’s sons – the founders of Israel’s twelve tribes – is depicted with his own personal attributes based on the blessings of Jacob in the book of Genesis, inviting us to contemplate the fascinating differences between the brothers. The publication – scholarly catalogue and lavish coffee-table book in one – comprises in-depth essays about Zurbarán and the series, as well as brief curatorial texts about each work accompanied by photographs that illustrate the technical analysis of the paintings, including X-rays which are as informative as they are evocative.