Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1575-1642 Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher. He was one of the greatest and most influential of the 17th-century Italian painters, whose sophisticated and complex art dominated the Bolognese school. A classicizing artist, deeply influenced by Greco-Roman art and by Raphael but also by the mannered elegance of Parmigianino's paintings, he sought an ideal beauty; his work was especially celebrated for its compositional and figural grace. In his religious art he was concerned with the expression of intense emotion, often charged with pathos; according to his biographer Malvasia, he boasted that he 'could paint heads with their eyes uplifted a hundred different ways' to give form to a state of ecstasy or divine inspiration.  Related Paintings of RENI, Guido :. | The Baptism of Christ | Atalanta and Hippomenes | David with the Head of Goliath sg | Reclining Venus with Cupid | Anbetung der Hirten, Detail |
Related Artists:
Joseph Israels
1824-1911
Anton Faistauer
painted Alte Muhle bei Maishofen in 1911
CLAEISSENS, Pieter the Younger
Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1500-1575