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Guido Reni ( Italian pronunciation: [ˌɡwiːdo ˈrɛːni]; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious works, but also mythological and allegorical subjects.
Guido Reni was an early Italian Baroque painter noted for the classical idealism of his renderings of mythological and religious subjects. First apprenticed to the Flemish painter Denis Calvaert at the age of 10, Reni was later influenced by the novel naturalism of the Carracci, a Bolognese family.
View all 145 artworks. Guido Reni lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Baroque. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
The Immaculate Conception. Guido Reni Italian. 1627. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 620. Reni, during his lifetime the most celebrated living painter in Italy, was famous for the elegance of his compositions and the beauty and grace of his heads, earning him the epithet “Divine.”.
Feb 21, 2024 · Guido Reni was a widely-acclaimed painter and draughtsman in seventeenth-century Italy, renowned for his elegant interpretations of religious and mythological scenes. His style, which fused elements of classical idealism with close observation of the natural world, was perpetuated through the activity of an exceptionally large and productive ...
The Adoration of the Shepherds is a late altarpiece by Guido Reni. Nearly five metres high without its frame, it is one of the largest paintings in the National Gallery’s collection.In a stable in Bethlehem, a group of shepherds gather around the newborn Christ. Reni has staged a night-time scene...
Born 1575. Died 1642. Nationality Italian. Birth place Bologna. Death place Bologna. Reni was probably one of the most successful and sought-after Italian painters of his time, although he was notoriously difficult and temperamental. His paintings combine elegant and graceful figures with naturalistic details and textures.
Guido Reni's Abduction of Helen: The Politics and Rhetoric of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe. New York, 1997. Ebert-Schifferer, Sybille, Andrea Emiliani, and Erich Schleier, eds. Guido Reni und Europa: Ruhm und Nachruhm. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle. Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main and Bologna, 1988.
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.
'Guido Reni was the most famous Italian painter of his day, revered for the grace and naturalness of his serenely balanced compositions he was even referred to as "the divine Guido."'...
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