Guercino's Friar with a gold earring
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310223044
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31045565
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126584
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131840
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  alternate name: Painting, Italian--17th century--Exhibitions
abstract: Who is the intriguing man wearing a religious habit and a gold hoop earring in this portrait by Italian Baroque master II Guercino? And why does he point to a stack of drawings? This fascinating book investigates the Ringling's portrait of Fra Bonaventura Bisi, a Franciscan Minor Conventual friar whose work as an art dealer, printmaker, and celebrated painter of miniatures made him a major figure in the artistic culture of seventeenth-century Bologna. Beautifully illustrated, this volume offers new scholarship on both Guercino's portrait and Fra Bisi's life, including his extraordinary miniatures, his dogged pursuit of artworks for high-ranking collectors, his passionate efforts to promote the appreciation and collecting of drawings, and not least his incongruous gold hoop earring. Published to accompany an important exhibition at The Ringling, this book, based on years of research, provides a captivating glimpse into art making and art collecting in Baroque Italy.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31019360
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31156947
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310110166
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 : Guercino's Bisi / David M. Stone -- Chapter 2 : Bisi as art adviser and dealer to the Estensi and Medici / David M. Stone -- Chapter 3 : Men with earrings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Sarah Cartwright -- Chapter 4 : Bisi and miniature painting in seventeenth-century Italy / Sarah Cartwright -- Bibliography -- Exhibition checklist -- Index -- Picture credits.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301329879

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