# Portrait of Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Called "Il Pittorino" [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUERCINO]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 94 x 77 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Called "Il Pittorino" c. 1658 Oil on canvas, 94 x 77 cm Private collection Fra Bonaventura Bisi \(1601-1659\), called "Il Pittorino" or "Padre Pittorino," was a Franciscan friar from the convent of San Francesco, Bologna. He was well known as a practicing engraver and miniature painter. He became a good friend of Guercino. Guercino's warm and subtle portrait of his friend and fellow painter shows the aging friar as a thin and fragile man. The canvas displays Guercino's consummate technique in rendering the flesh tones and the moist eyes of Bisi. The sitter holds a red-chalk portrait of hiss patron Alfonso IV d'Este. ## Related artworks - [A Cosmographer]() - [A Donor Presented to the Virgin]() - [Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael]() - [Allegory of Painting and Sculpture]() - [Apparition of Christ to the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Aurora]() - [Aurora]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()