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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:: 8884
The Penitent Magdalene dj
1635
Oil on canvas
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
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Painting ID:: 8885
St Mary Magdalene
1633
Oil on canvas, 234 x 151 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 8886
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
c. 1631
Oil on canvas, 227 x 195 cm
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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Painting ID:: 28119
The Death of Cleopatra
mk61
c.1635
Oil on canvas
110x94cm
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Painting ID:: 31374
Atalanta and Hippomenes
nn07
c. 1612
Oil on canvas, 206 x 297 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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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: | William Maw Egley | Thomas Gainsborough | Mary Beale | William Aiken Walker | Thomas Somerscales |
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