Guido Reni

Guido Reni (* November 4, 1575 in Calvenzano; † August 18, 1642 in Bologna ) was an Italian painter and etcher.

Life

Reni was born in Calvenzano, studied in Bologna at Denys Calvaert, but was also influenced by Lodovico Carracci. In 1600 he went to Rome, where he painted in an idealized Raphael -like style, but clearly differed from the greatest masters of his time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci. He continued his work until 1614 mainly in Rome continued and returned to Bologna, which he later left only twice to work in 1622 in Naples and Rome in 1625. After Rome, he returned to painting commissioned by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi the great altarpiece of the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini with a representation of the Holy Trinity. Reni painted many frescoes, of which the Aurora ( 1613 ) on the ceiling of the central hall of the Casino Rospigliosi Pallavicini (originally: Casino Borghese) in Rome is one of the highest quality; Reni worked on the decoration of this room along with Antonio Tempesta, who painted on the walls of the two narrow sides a triumph of Fama and a triumphal Cupid. During his last years of life tended his religious works to superficiality and sentimentality.

Works

(Selection)

• Resurrection of Lazarus, 1619, Paris, Louvre
• St. William of Aquitaine receiving the religious habit, 1620, Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale
• Erminia among the Shepherds returns a, 1620, Birmingham, Art Gallery
• Burial of Saint Petronilla, 1621, Rome, Kapitolinisches Museum
• Aurora, 1621, ceiling fresco, Rome, Casino Ludovisi
• San Filippo Neri, 1656
• Gesù e la Samaritana
• Santa Cecilia
• Flagellation
• Madonna con bambino
• Il ritorno del figliol prodigo, 1619
• Sibilla Persica, 1647
• Angeli sul Cristo morto piangenti, 1618
• Cristo risorto appare alla Vergine, 1629
• San Luca, 1653
• Susanna ei vecchioni
• Deposition di Cristo, 1656
• Allegoria della pittura e scultura, 1637
• Sansone catturato dai filistei, 1619
• Parabola della Dracma perduta, 1622
• Maria Maddalena in Penitenza
• San Francesco che suona il violino con angelo
• Santa Margherita
• Martyrdom of Santa Caterina, 1653
• Santi Patroni di Modena, 1652
• Saul attacca Davide, 1646
• San Romualdo, 1641
• Sibilla Samia
• Marte e Venere Cupid, 1633
• Uomo nudo sdraiato, 1618
• Saint Matthew the Evangelist and the Angel, 1630, Pinacoteca Vaticana
• The Centaur Eurytus steals the Lapiths bride Hippo Lady, 1620-21, Musée du Louvre
• Atalante and Hippomenes, 1625, Museo di Capodimonte
• Charity | Charity, 1604-07, Palazzo Pitti
• Innocents in Bethlehem, 1611-1612, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

The Centaur Eurytus steals the Lapithenbraut Hippo Dame ( 1620-21 ), Louvre

Atalanta and Hippomenes ( 1625), Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte

Caritas ( 1604-07 ), Palazzo Pitti

Innocents in Bethlehem (1611-1612), Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Museums and exhibitions

• Alte Pinakothek, Munich
• Auckland Art Gallery
• Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
• Galleria Colonna, Rome
• Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
• Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History of Oldenburg
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art ( LACMA )
• Louvre, Paris
• Musée des Beaux -Arts, Dijon
• Musée des Beaux -Arts, Lyon
• Musei Capitolini, Rome
• Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
• Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (California )
• Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
• Palazzo Rosso, Genoa
• Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
• Royal Academy of Arts, London
• William Castle, Kassel
• Dresden State Art Collections
• Villa Borghese, Rome
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore