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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 Paintings of RENI, Guido :. | The Glory of St Dominic | St Joseph with the Infant Jesus dy | Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist | The Rape of Helena | Joseph and Potiphar's Wife | Related Artists: Simone Cantarini,Called Il PesaresePesaro 1612-Bologna 1648 Alberto PasiniItalian Painter, 1826-1899 EVERDINGEN, Caesar vanDutch Baroque Era Painter, 1617-167
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