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Guido Reni (1575-1642)

Aliases: "Le" Guide; "Il" Guido; Guido /Rhenus Rhenus

Professions: Painter; Etcher; Sculptor

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    - Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna The Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia oil on copper

    - Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna The Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia oil on copper

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    s - Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna The Penitent Saint Peter oil on canvas

    s - Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna The Penitent Saint Peter oil on canvas

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    - Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna Saint Margaret of Antioch oil on canvas, in its original 17 th century painted wood frame

    - Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna Saint Margaret of Antioch oil on canvas, in its original 17 th century painted wood frame

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    Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna The Penitent Saint Peter oil on canvas

    Guido Reni , Calvenzano di Vergato 1575 - 1642 Bologna The Penitent Saint Peter oil on canvas

Guido Reni Biography

(b Bologna, 4 Nov 1575; d Bologna, 18 Aug 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. He was a subtle yet bold colourist, moving from the brilliant colour of his early paintings to the light tonalities and cool, silvery palette of his later work.

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