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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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RENI, Guido
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The Rape of Helena
Painting ID:: 51061 new18/RENI, Guido-734482.jpg
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RENI, Guido
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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. |
The Rape of Helena |
1631
Oil on canvas |
Related Paintings::. | Laocoon 1 | Mis.Frederick in front of the window | David Garrick as Richard III | |
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