Author: Guido Reni
Genre: Baroque
Resolution: from 390x323 to 4075x3449
Number of pictures: 138
Format: JPG
Guido Reni (Italian Guido Reni, November 4, 1575, Calventano, Emilia-Romagna - August 18, 1642, Bologna) is an Italian painter of the Bologna school.
Nine years of age he entered, as a pupil to the Flemish painter Denis Calvert, who lived in Italy; Then moving to Ludovico Carracci's school, moved from it, in order to master the technique of fresco painting, to Ferrantini, and in 1596 went to Rome, where he began a thorough study of the works of Raphael.
Even before his arrival in this city, Reni painted the facade of Palazzo Cagni, in Bologna, and performed for the local church of San Michele in Bosco the image of "St. Benedict in the desert. " In Rome, they were painted, commissioned by Cardinal Borghese, the painting "The Crucifixion of St. Petra "(located in the Vatican Gallery) and the famous plafond" Aurora "in the Palazzo Rospilosi.
Upon Reni's return to his homeland, "Beating the Babies" (located in the Bologna Pinakothek) came out from under his hand. Soon after, he again went to Rome at the call of Pope Paul V, who instructed him to paint the walls of the chapel in the Quirinal Palace with scenes from the life of the Virgin and who ordered him "Adoration of the Cross" for the church of S. Gregorio. Further works of Reni: Paradise for the Church of S. Domenico, Ascension for the Church of S. Ambrogio (in Bologna), "Crucifixion" for the Capuchin Church in Genoa (located in the Bologna Pinakotheque), "Collecting the Celestial Manna", etc. Frescoes in the Renaissance cathedral. In 1622 Reni worked on decorating the chapel of St. Januarius in Naples, but soon was forced to retire therefrom, fleeing persecution and revenge on the part of the envious painters Lanfranco and Ribera. At the end of his life he surrendered to the game, the passion for which little by little he destroyed his talent.
In the first era of his work, Reni joined the then prevailing Italian painting of the naturalistic direction, and, like other disciples of Carracci, fell heavily influenced by M.-A. Yes Caravaggio. Reni's naturalistic ambition was most strikingly expressed in the Vatican Crucifixion, in its concept and in the types of figures very similar to the images of torture common to Italian artists of the time. Among the works of Reni in the same way applies, in addition to the "Beating of the Babies", mentioned above, the picture of the Berlin Museum "St. Anthony and Paul are hermits. " In the middle of his life, Reni tried to convey a warmer and tender feeling and achieve beauty and grace, as, for example, in the "Aurora" Palazzo Raspillozi. In the last period of his work, he portrayed the types of purely external female beauty, and gave his beauties too soft, diffuse forms; Reni's coloring before was very fresh and bright, at this time the decline of his talent became dull and pale.
Reni was the teacher of a number of painters, Lauri, Lolli, Dinarelli, Elizabeth Sirani, Jesse, Semanti, Marescatti, Ruggieri, Cantarini, Lafranco, Cittadini and many others.
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