Guido Reni
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Guido Reni was an Italian Baroque painter, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but
Self portrait, c. 1602
Guido Reni – L'Aurora
St Michael Archangel, 1636. The Archangel Michael trampling Satan wears a late-Roman military cloak and cuirass. Held in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome.
Saint Joseph and the Christ Child, 1640
Bolognese school
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The Bolognese school of painting, also known as the school of Bologna, flourished between the 16th and 17th centuries in Bologna, which rivalled Florence and Rome as the centre of painting in Italy.
Guido Reni
…religious works, but also mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School that emerged under the influence of the Carracci. Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the only child of Daniele Reni and Ginevra…
Annibale Carracci, the Cyclops Polyphemus in his frescos for the Palazzo Farnese
Portrait likely to be of Isabella d'Este, attributed to Francesco Francia, 1511
Deposition of Christ by Prospero Fontana, 1563
Domenichino, Saint Cecilia Distributing Alms, fresco, 1612–15, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome