Guido Reni

Guido Reni known as the Guide (Bologna, 1575 - Bologna, 1642) is a painter and a decorator Italy N who belongs to the school of Bologna.

Biography

Near to the academy of the Carrache in Bologna then of Raphaël, its painting is before all that of an elegant sensuality, which does not exclude the religiosity: indeed, the the Vatican placed several orders to him, of which frescos of the Quirinal palate. Its style is that of the Baroque evolving to the Classicisme.

Works

One owes him inter alia:

• Crucifixion of saint Pierre (1603, the Vatican);
• frescos of the vault of the palate Quirinal (1610, the Vatican);
• frescos of the Holy-Marie-Major vault (1609-1611, the Vatican);
• the Massacre of the innocent (1611, Bologna);
• the Dawn , fresco of the ceiling of the palate Parravicini Rospigliosi (1613-1614, Rome), 281 X 700 cm;
• Holy Sebastien , retable (1615, Museums of Capitole, Rome);
• the cycle of the Work of Hercules (1617-1621, Museum of Louvre);
• Atalante and Hippomène (1622-1625, Naples);
• Assumption of the Virgin (1637), with the Museum of the Art schools of Lyon;
• happy Heart (1640-1642, Bologna);
• Madonna beyond firn (Virgin with the Child with holy Lucie and Marie-madeleine (1623) on copper ricordo, orders of Guiliano Micotti for the church Santa Maria Corteorlandini de Lucques currently preserved in the Galerie of the Offices of Florence

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