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RENI, Guido
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1575-1642
Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was one of the greatest and most influential of the 17th-century Italian painters, whose sophisticated and complex art dominated the Bolognese school. A classicizing artist, deeply influenced by Greco-Roman art and by Raphael but also by the mannered elegance of Parmigianino's paintings, he sought an ideal beauty; his work was especially celebrated for its compositional and figural grace. In his religious art he was concerned with the expression of intense emotion, often charged with pathos; according to his biographer Malvasia, he boasted that he 'could paint heads with their eyes uplifted a hundred different ways' to give form to a state of ecstasy or divine inspiration.
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Painting ID:: 8874
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
1612
Oil on canvas, 64 x 55 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna
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Painting ID:: 8875
Portrait of an Old Womannm er
1611-12
Oil on canvas, 34,5 x 28 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna
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Painting ID:: 8876
Sleeping Putto dru
1627
Fresco, 57 x 56 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 8877
Susanna and the Elders dy
c. 1620
Oil on canvas, 113 x 118 cm
City Art Gallery, Auckland
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Painting ID:: 8878
Angel of the Annunciation
Oil on canvas, 58,5 x 46,5 cm
Landesmuseum, Oldenburg
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RENI, Guido
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1575-1642
Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was one of the greatest and most influential of the 17th-century Italian painters, whose sophisticated and complex art dominated the Bolognese school. A classicizing artist, deeply influenced by Greco-Roman art and by Raphael but also by the mannered elegance of Parmigianino's paintings, he sought an ideal beauty; his work was especially celebrated for its compositional and figural grace. In his religious art he was concerned with the expression of intense emotion, often charged with pathos; according to his biographer Malvasia, he boasted that he 'could paint heads with their eyes uplifted a hundred different ways' to give form to a state of ecstasy or divine inspiration.
. Related Artists to RENI, Guido: | Edward Borein | Henri Rouart | William Harnett | Barthel Bruyn the Elder | Francisco Lopez Caro |
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