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The great 17th-centuy Italian painter Guido Reni was a master of the religious subject par excellence.

Guido Reni was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne..

Guido Reni

(b Bologna, 4 Nov. 1575; d Bologna, 18 Aug.

1642).

Bolognese painter, draughtsman, and occasional etcher. From about 1584 to 1593 he was a pupil of Calvaert, then transferred to the academy run by the Carracci, where he absorbed their tradition of clear, firm draughtsmanship.

By 1601 he had moved to Rome and he was based there until 1614, although he made frequent visits to Bologna.

Bolognese painter, draughtsman, and occasional etcher.

Guido Reni was among the most famous artists in Italy around with a reputation recognized across Europe.

Guido Reni was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne.

Artist: Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna – Bologna).

The Portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro is a picture by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, dating from around and housed in the Uffizi Gallery.

He flirted briefly with the Caravaggesque manner (Crucifixion of St Peter, 1603, Pinacoteca, Vatican), but Raphael and the antique were the main inspiration for his graceful classical style, as is seen in his most celebrated work, Aurora (1614, Casino dell' Aurora, Palazzo Rospiglioso-Pallavacini, Rome), a captivatingly beautiful ceiling fresco painted for Cardinal Scipione Borghese.

Reni was also a favourite artist of Borghese's uncle, Pope Paul V, but in spite of his success in Rome he settled in Bologna in 1614 and seldom left the city again. After Ludovico Carracci's death in 1619, h