Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Baroque
Date and Place of Birth:
November 4, 1575, Calvenzano (near Bologna), Italy
Life:
Guido Reni owed a great debt to Raphael for his painting style. Reni's work is wonderful, and was very much in demand during his lifetime, but not one aspect of it has any original technique. Perhaps a negative bias is showing through here; Reni was reportedly both extremely pious and misogynistic to the point of barring women from crossing his threshold. Because of the first, and in spite of the latter, he tenderly painted some fine Madonnas.
Important Works:
- • St. Cecelia (1606)
- • Aurora (1613-14)
- • St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus (1635)
Date and Place of Death:
August 18, 1642, Bologna, Italy
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