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CRETI, Donato
Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1671, Bologna, d. 1749, Bologna)
Italian painter and draughtsman. His individual and poetic art represents, with that of Marcantonio Franceschini, the last significant expression of the classical-idealist strain in Bolognese painting. His activity was almost wholly confined to Bologna, where he painted decorative frescoes, altarpieces and easel pictures for private collectors. Two qualities are paramount: a perfected finesse of handling and poetic suggestiveness of situation and mood. He sought the ideal beauty of the individual figure and was thus at his best in meditative pictures with few figures; his subjects combine grace of form and precision of contour with flesh that attains the surface delicacy of porcelain and colours that have a mineral-like refulgence.
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Painting ID:: 6321
Achilles Handing over to Chiron dfg
Oil on canvas, 125 x 163 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
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Painting ID:: 6322
The Charity dfh
1745
Wood, diameter: 79 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
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Painting ID:: 6323
Mercury and Paris tyr
1745
Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
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Painting ID:: 30601
Astronomical Observation Sun
mk68
Oil on canvas
20"13 3/4"
Vatican,Picture Gallery
171-1720
Italy
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Painting ID:: 32283
Mercury and Paris
1745
Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm
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CRETI, Donato
Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1671, Bologna, d. 1749, Bologna)
Italian painter and draughtsman. His individual and poetic art represents, with that of Marcantonio Franceschini, the last significant expression of the classical-idealist strain in Bolognese painting. His activity was almost wholly confined to Bologna, where he painted decorative frescoes, altarpieces and easel pictures for private collectors. Two qualities are paramount: a perfected finesse of handling and poetic suggestiveness of situation and mood. He sought the ideal beauty of the individual figure and was thus at his best in meditative pictures with few figures; his subjects combine grace of form and precision of contour with flesh that attains the surface delicacy of porcelain and colours that have a mineral-like refulgence.
. Related Artists to CRETI, Donato: | Theodore Caruelle D Aligny | Marlow, William | Floris van Dijck | Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier | William Bromley |
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