[SPA] EL PINTOR FLORENTINO FRANCISCO GINETE (CA. 1575-1647): UN ARTISTA CORTESANO ITINERANTE ENTRE MADRID Y ANDALUCÍA // THE FLORENTINE PAINTER FRANCISCO GINETE (C. 1575-1647): A PERIPATETIC COURTIER ARTIST BETWEEN MADRID AND ANDALUSIA

Abstract

La revisión de las fuentes publicadas sobre el pintor italiano Francisco Ginete activo en Madrid en la primera mitad del siglo XVII y su confrontación a las conocidas sobre el pintor llamado Francisco Juanete, activo en la corte de los duques de Medina Sidonia en Sanlúcar de Barrameda entre 1604 y 1638 permite concluir que se trata de un solo artista. En ese artículo se establece una primera biografía y se reconstruye su contexto artístico y político para perfilar este pequeño artista cortesano cercano a pintores como Velázquez, Vicente Carducho y Angelo Nardi. PALABRAS CLAVE: Corte, retrato, España, Diego Velázquez, Lope de Vega.--The review of the published sources about the Italian painter Francisco Ginete, working in Madrid during the early 17 th century, and about the painter known as Francisco Juanete, working in the service of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia between 1604 and 1638, as well as their confronting, lets to conclude that they were the same person. Consequently, this study offers a first biography about this artists and gathers new and dispersed data that help to define more clearly the figure of a courtesan artist, a close to painters like Velázquez, Vicente Carducho and Angelo Nardi.KEYWORDS: Portrait, court, Spain, Diego Velázquez, Lope de Vega