# Decoration of the Capilla del Milagro

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RIZI, Francisco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rizi-francisco-r674b1a650e6004>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

In 1678, Rizi started to fresco in a chapel founded by Juan José de Austria, the illegitimate son of Philip IV, in the convent of the Descalzas Reales, where the prince&#39;s illegitimate daughter had taken vows. The Capilla del Milagro, although tiny in scale, is replete with every device of pictorial illusionism. In order to impart a feeling of expansiveness to the space, Rizi painted a fictional colonnade, beyond which there is a view into an illusionistic, columned hall. On one wall, the artist created a false door, with a distant altar visible through a painted gate.

## Related artworks

- [Altarpiece](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rizi-francisco-r674b1a650e6004/altarpiece-red18ad099d544f>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rizi-francisco-r674b1a650e6004/annunciation-r6f4a6d9eed9381>)
- [Auto-da-fe on Plaza Mayor, Madrid](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rizi-francisco-r674b1a650e6004/auto-da-fe-on-plaza-mayor-madrid-r5c2d01acdac548>)
- [Circumcision](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rizi-francisco-r674b1a650e6004/circumcision-r5c5877c50020e6>)
- [Pentitent Magdalen](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rizi-francisco-r674b1a650e6004/pentitent-magdalen-r4e5584cc096a6e>)
- [Virgin and Child with Sts Philip and Francis](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rizi-francisco-r674b1a650e6004/virgin-and-child-with-sts-philip-and-francis-r6668381d606796>)

## Attribution

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