Portrait of Dr. Francisco de Pisa (Q2842448)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
portrait (Q134307)
artist:
El Greco (Q301)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
Peleș Castle (Q917702)
owned by:
Carol I of Romania (Q57146)
Michael I of Romania (Q930013)
main subject:
Francisco de Pisa (Q3816939)
depicts:
Francisco de Pisa (Q3816939)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
RAHfiYXTdmqk0Q
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/portrait-dr-francisco-de-pisa
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: The painter known as El Greco (“the Greek”) was born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Crete, then a territory of the Venetian Republic, where he trained as an icon painter. Talented and ambitious, he left Crete around 1568 for Venice, and later Rome. In Italy he studied the coloring and light of the Venetian masters, the figures of Michelangelo, as well as the grace and dynamism of the Emilian artists, all of which informed his own highly original style. In 1577, El Greco departed for Spain and settled in the city of Toledo. He was patronized there by members of the city’s wealthy and educated elite. This portrait, which dates from the last period of El Greco’s career, attests to the artist’s profound gifts as a portraitist, which were praised since his years in Italy and remained undiminished in old age.
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