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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:: 8879
Virgin of the Annunciation szt
Oil on canvas, 58,5 x 46,5 cm
Landesmuseum, Oldenburg
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Painting ID:: 8880
Cleopatra with the Asp
c. 1630
Oil on canvas, 113,7 x 94,9 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 8881
Cleopatra
1635-40
Oil on canvas, 122 x 96 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
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Painting ID:: 8882
St Joseph
Oil on canvas
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
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Painting ID:: 8883
St Joseph with the Infant Jesus dy
c. 1635
Oil on canvas, 126 x 101 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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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: | Gabriel Metsu | Gustave Moreau | Miller, Kenneth Hayes | Dosso Dossi | Francois-Rene Moreaux |
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