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The painter Guido Reni was born in 1575 in Bologna in Italy. The baroque artist is best known for his highly decorative paintings. Reni began his artistic apprenticeship with the mannerist Denis Calvaert until he later changed to a newly established art school, which was progressive by then standards. The Carracci family, who ran the art school, had a decisive influence on Reni's art. They were primarily opposed to the mannerism represented by Reni's previous master Calvaert. They were committed to a return of the arts to the realism of the great masters of the High Renaissance. Examples of this period were Raphael, Tizian and Veronese.
Reni's private life has always been a mystery to art history: the Italian painter had the peculiarity of being terribly afraid of women. This was expressed in his fear of being poisoned by the mere touch of a woman. Some suspect that he might have been homosexual, while others describe him as ascetic. Even during Reni's lifetime, he was considered an oddity among artist colleagues because of his unusual lifestyle. His patrons saw in the discreet quality of his art a connection to different lives as a loner.
Reni loved Rome and spent many years in the great city of culture. His idol was the Roman painter Caravaggio. In the painting "Crucifixion of St. Peter" from 1603 Reni tried to imitate Caravaggio's rough way of painting deep shadows. At the same time Reni succeeded in maintaining his Bolognese Classicism through the rather formal poses of the figures and the careful symmetry of the composition. Soon, however, Reni found this balancing act between the styles to be an unpleasant compromise and began to think about a clearer form of expression, which we now associate with Baroque Classicism. Reni was very successful and replaced Annibale Carracci as master of Baroque Classicism in Rome. The so-called Aurora fresco, which Reni painted in Rome's Casino of the Pallavicini-Rospigliosi Palace, bears witness to his superiority: the crisp, Hellenistic elegance rightly earned him the leading position.
In 1614 the painter returned to his home town of Bologna, where he continued his formalism with even more accent. In his work "Atalanta and Hippomenes" the cold, impersonal nude figures seem like fragments of antique marble statues. As a mature artist he further developed his painting style. In oil paintings such as "Cleopatra and Girl with Wreath" there are no longer any elaborate poses or folds. Reni's painting becomes looser and no longer consists of lines, but rather of colours that have been applied thinly with a quick brushstroke. All shades of colour Renis backed grey, so that they often appear faded.
The painter Guido Reni was born in 1575 in Bologna in Italy. The baroque artist is best known for his highly decorative paintings. Reni began his artistic apprenticeship with the mannerist Denis Calvaert until he later changed to a newly established art school, which was progressive by then standards. The Carracci family, who ran the art school, had a decisive influence on Reni's art. They were primarily opposed to the mannerism represented by Reni's previous master Calvaert. They were committed to a return of the arts to the realism of the great masters of the High Renaissance. Examples of this period were Raphael, Tizian and Veronese.
Reni's private life has always been a mystery to art history: the Italian painter had the peculiarity of being terribly afraid of women. This was expressed in his fear of being poisoned by the mere touch of a woman. Some suspect that he might have been homosexual, while others describe him as ascetic. Even during Reni's lifetime, he was considered an oddity among artist colleagues because of his unusual lifestyle. His patrons saw in the discreet quality of his art a connection to different lives as a loner.
Reni loved Rome and spent many years in the great city of culture. His idol was the Roman painter Caravaggio. In the painting "Crucifixion of St. Peter" from 1603 Reni tried to imitate Caravaggio's rough way of painting deep shadows. At the same time Reni succeeded in maintaining his Bolognese Classicism through the rather formal poses of the figures and the careful symmetry of the composition. Soon, however, Reni found this balancing act between the styles to be an unpleasant compromise and began to think about a clearer form of expression, which we now associate with Baroque Classicism. Reni was very successful and replaced Annibale Carracci as master of Baroque Classicism in Rome. The so-called Aurora fresco, which Reni painted in Rome's Casino of the Pallavicini-Rospigliosi Palace, bears witness to his superiority: the crisp, Hellenistic elegance rightly earned him the leading position.
In 1614 the painter returned to his home town of Bologna, where he continued his formalism with even more accent. In his work "Atalanta and Hippomenes" the cold, impersonal nude figures seem like fragments of antique marble statues. As a mature artist he further developed his painting style. In oil paintings such as "Cleopatra and Girl with Wreath" there are no longer any elaborate poses or folds. Reni's painting becomes looser and no longer consists of lines, but rather of colours that have been applied thinly with a quick brushstroke. All shades of colour Renis backed grey, so that they often appear faded.
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.jpg "Archangel Michael Defeating Satan, c.1636 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Adoration of the Shepherds by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Archangel Saint Michael Crushes the Head of the Demon by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, ca. 1662 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Hercules Slaying the Hydra of Lerna, 1620-1621 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Archangel St Michael defeating the Devil, engraved by Pieter de Bailliu by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Saint Mary Magdalene by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Abduction of Helen, c.1626-31 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Apollo and Marsyas, ca 1625 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Saint Joseph by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Beatrice Cenci by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Head of a Woman Looking Up by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Four Seasons by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Archangel Saint Michael Terrassing the Dragon by V. M. De Girolamo after Guido Reni, 1957 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Annunciation by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Suicide of Lucretia by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Madonna of the Chair or Madonna della Seggiola, 1624 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Head of a Young Woman Looking Upward by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Saint Joseph with Infant Christ by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child, c.1628-1630 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Fight Between Heracles and Achelous by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Half-figure of Naked Man, Flips Back, Pretending to Suffer by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Salome holding the head of John the Baptist by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Aeneas takes leave of Dido by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail) by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Death of Cleopatra, c. 1640 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Male Nude Study by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Hercules on the Pyre by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Saint Roch in Prison, Comforted by an Angel by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Triumphal Arch Surmounted by a Statue Representing the City of Bologna, Buildings Seen Through by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Abduction of Deianeira by the Centaur Nessus by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Circumcision (detail) by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Circumcision (detail) by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Seated Woman Holding a Tablet and Compass Allegory of Learning, a Winged Putto by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Ceiling frescoes of the room of the Aldobrandini wedding, depicting scenes from the stories of Samson by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "St. Sebastian by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Nativity at Night, 1640 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Holy Family with Saint Clare by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Crucifixion of St. Peter by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Virgin Holding the Infant Christ, an Oval Composition, ca. 1600-1640 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, plate 29 from a series of portraits of artists, engraved by Joannes Meyssens by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Saint Sebastian by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "David with the Head of Goliath by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Victorious Samson by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Virgin and Child Enthroned, 1625 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Triumphal Column with Female Figure of Fame Holding a Trumpet at the Top, 1598 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Cain kills Abel by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Death of Cleopatra by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Christ on the Cross with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Joseph and the Christ Child in his arms by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Atalanta and Hippomenes by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Joseph and Potiphar")
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.jpg "Saint Christopher Walking with the Infant Christ on His Right Shoulder by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Massacre of the Innocents by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Ecce Homo by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Angel Appearing to St. Jerome by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Virgin by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Saint James the Greater by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Susanna and the Elders by Guido Reni")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1463423).jpg "Lucretia by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Portrait of Saint Peter Crying by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Bacchus by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Christ Crowned with Thorns by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Young Saint John the Baptist kneeling before the infant Christ who caresses his face by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Entombment, Christ with Legs Outstretched, the Virgin at Right by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "Bust of a bearded man, ca. 1600-1640 by Guido Reni")
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.jpg "The Angel Appears to Betus? by Johan Martin Preisler")
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.jpg "St Mary Magdalene by Guido Reni")
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