Attributed to Francisco Rizi (Madrid, 1614 - El Escorial, Madrid, 1685) The Adoration of the Kings Oil on panel. 44 x 34 cm. Francisco Rizi was an important painter from Madrid of Italian descent who played an important role in the Madrid court of the seventeenth century, a fact that explains the extensive collection that houses the Prado Museum of Rizi. The museum describes him as "a painter of great success and one of the greatest exponents of the great pictorial baroque of Madrid from the mid-17th century. A formulation that he knew how to transmit to his disciples, as he trained artists as unique as Juan Antonio Escalante, José Antolínez or Claudio Coello". With ties to the Madrid court since 1638, he achieved the status of painter to the king in 1656. Three years earlier, he received the title of painter of the cathedral of Toledo, with which he was particularly linked. An artist of great versatility, he worked in oil and fresco, in addition to participating in and leading numerous ephemeral projects such as decorations for royal receptions or in theatres such as the Buen Retiro Palace, of which he was director for decades, as reported by the Prado. The museum describes his painting as an example of "the full development of the new Baroque forms that came to the fore at the time.with his loose and carefree brushstroke, of full colorful sumptuousness, he manages to create effects of dynamism and movement full of expressiveness". The Prado Museum preserves a considerable part of his corpus, among which the same museum highlights the well-known "Auto de fe de la Plaza Mayor de Madrid" (P001126), the "Expolio de Cristo (Cristo de la Paciencia)" (P002925) and the "Profanación de un crucifijo (Familia de herejes azotando un crucifijo)" (P003775), the latter two of his most dramatic works, from the Capuchins of Madrid. Reference bibliography: - Museo del Prado (n.d.). "Rizi, Francisco." https://www.museodelprado.es/aprende/enciclopedia/voz/rizi-francisco/57f64849-a3f7-48bb-87d6-3d8d6e821ee4.