Guido Reni

Guido Reni (November 4, 1575, Calvenzano - August 18, 1642, Bologna), Italian painter of the Bologna school, master of the Baroque.At an early age he became an apprentice to the Flemish painter Denis Calvert; then moving to the school of Lodovico Carracci, he moved from it in order to master the technique of fresco painting to Ferrantini. During his formative years, Reni painted the façade of the Palazzo Tsani in Bologna and created the image of St. Michael for the church of San Michele in Bosco there. Benedict in the Desert. "In 1596, Reni left for Rome, where he began a thorough study of the works of Raphael. One of the first works written in Rome was the painting "The Torment of the Apostle Peter". Working in Rome, the artist quickly achieved recognition. Among his high-ranking customers were Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini (1571-1621), a close relative of Pope Clement VIII for whom in 1605 Reni painted the altarpiece "The Crucifixion of St. Peter". In this work, the influence of the manner of Caravaggio is especially strongly felt, whose pictorial experiments excited the then artistic world.Numerous paintings and monumental paintings were performed by Reni with lightness and artistry that admired his contemporaries. He depicted in them a circle of episodes and characters from sacred history, mythology and the lives of saints, traditional for the early Baroque, with a predominant interest in spectacular and vividly spectacular motives, in particular, scenes of apotheosis and martyrdom.In 1619, after the death of Lodovico Carracci, Guido Reni became the head of the Bologna Academy. And in 1629 he was elected head of the Academy of St. Luke. After 1622, he lives and works mainly in Bologna.Guido Reni died on 18 August 1642 at the age of 66 in one of the main churches of Bologna, the Basilica of San Domenico.

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