Portrait of a Painter
Technical Details
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Title
Portrait of a Painter -
Author
Fra' Galgario (Vittore Ghislandi) -
Year
1725 - 30 -
Dimensions
cm 75 x 60 -
Inventory
632 -
Room
XXXVI
Ghislandi, or Fra Vittore when he became a lay brother with the Minim Friars, was dubbed Fra’ Galgario after the convent where he lived on his return from Venice in c. 1701. The reputation he built in Venice and his realistic, scrupulously honest style of portraiture made him hugely popular in Bergamo. His biographer Francesco Maria Tassi says “in virtually every home there hung a product of his fertile brush”. His reds and blues, glistening with lacquer, are spectacular.
