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The Grandeur of the Spanish Baroque: The Life of Francisco Rizi Francisco Rizi de Guevara, a name synonymous with the theatrical splendor of the seventeenth-century Spanish Golden Age, lived a life that mirrored the very drama he captured on canvas. Born in Madrid around 1608, Rizi was destined for a life steeped in the arts. He was the son of Antonio Ricci, an Italian painter from Ancona who had traveled to Spain to contribute to the magnificent decorations of El Escorial. This lineage provided Francisco with an early immersion in the technical rigors of the craft, as he began his journey w…
A chart of Francisco Rizi's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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