Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1671, Bologna, d. 1749, Bologna) Italian painter and draughtsman. His individual and poetic art represents, with that of Marcantonio Franceschini, the last significant expression of the classical-idealist strain in Bolognese painting. His activity was almost wholly confined to Bologna, where he painted decorative frescoes, altarpieces and easel pictures for private collectors. Two qualities are paramount: a perfected finesse of handling and poetic suggestiveness of situation and mood. He sought the ideal beauty of the individual figure and was thus at his best in meditative pictures with few figures; his subjects combine grace of form and precision of contour with flesh that attains the surface delicacy of porcelain and colours that have a mineral-like refulgence.  Related Paintings of CRETI, Donato :. | At the races The Start | Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse | Family Reunion | Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate et | The Martyrdom of St Stephen |
Related Artists:
Charles Hunt
British genre scenes painter , 1803-1877
Bernat, Martin
Spanish Early Renaissance Painter, 1454-1497
Aurelio de Figueiredo
painted Girl at the piano in 1892