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Reni, Guido

Born Nov. 4, 1575, in Calvenzano, Emilia-Romagna; died Aug. 18, 1642, in Bologna. Italian painter.

Reni was greatly influenced by the Carracci brothers, Raphael, Caravaggio, and the artists of ancient Greece and Rome. He worked primarily in Rome (from 1605) and Bologna (from 1622). His mature works combine balanced, clear, and frequently relief-like composition with a palette consisting of gradations of warm golden or illuminated silver tones (for example, the fresco decoration Aurora, Rospigliosi Palace, Rome, c. 1610). Saccharine sentimentality or cold idealization (for example, Atalanta and Hippomenes, Capodimonte Museum, Naples) intensified in Reni’s works of his Bologna period. As a result, Reni’s name was often considered in later periods as a synonym for an academic artist.

REFERENCES

Shcherbacheva, M. I. “Kartiny Gvido Reni v sobranii Ermitazha.” Trudy gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha, vol. 1. Moscow, 1956. Pages 73–80.
Gnudi, C, and G. C. Cavalli. Guido Reni. [Florence, 1955.]

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John," some Della Robbia babies, and some Guido Reni Madonnas.

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He was Keeper of the Ashmolean from 1884 to 1908 and presented a number of his pictures to the museum, including one which he attributed (wrongly) to Guido Reni and another possibly by Pietro Paolini.

A scholarly pursuit: this lavish catalogue of the Ashmolean's baroque paintings is a triumph

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Born in Bologna, Elisabetta Sirani was the eldest daughter of the painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610-1670), a pupil of Guido Reni. As a woman, she was unable to study the male nude in local drawing academies, and her direct access to art was limited to her father's workshop where she trained, her parish church, patrons' palaces, and public exhibitions on holidays.

Elisabetta Sirani 'Virtuosa': Women's Cultural Production in Early Modern Bologna

Saint Joseph and the Christ Child: The idea is based on Italian Guido Reni's original painting (1638-1640).

In Pictures: St. Maron Church Marks Centennial

With Barocci we are a long way from Raphael and much closer to Baroque masters such as Guido Reni or Murillo; those who find Madonnas by these artists (or even by Raphael) too sweet or sentimental may have a similar reaction to those of Barocci.

Barocci: Brilliance and Grace

Some of the paintings, by artists including Guercino, Guido Reni, Domenichino and Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini were bought for as little as PS100 in the mid-20th century but the value of the entire collection is now put at more than PS100 million.

Old masters bequeathed to city - on one condition