Guido Reni

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Self-portrait, around 1635

Guido Reni (born November 4, 1575 in Calvenzano , † August 18, 1642 in Bologna ) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque .

Life

Saint Joseph with the Christ child

Reni was born in Calvenzano, studied in Bologna with Denys Calvaert , but was also influenced by Lodovico Carracci . In 1600 he went to Rome , where he painted in an idealized Raphael- like style, which, however , differed significantly from the greatest masters of his time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci . He continued his work mainly in Rome until 1614 and returned to Bologna, which he later left only twice to work in Naples in 1622 and in Rome in 1625. He returned to Rome to paint the large altarpiece of the Church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini with a representation of the Holy Trinity on behalf of Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi . Reni created 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 most valuable; Reni worked on the decoration of this room together with Antonio Tempesta , who painted a triumphal procession of Fama and a triumphal procession of Cupid on the walls of the two narrow sides .

In particular, the religious paintings of his late work were judged far more critically in the 20th century than before. As early as 1908 there was talk of "excessive sentimentality". Similarly, Hans Werner Grohn in 1968 speak of the “proximity of embarrassing sentimentality” and Joachim Fernau in 1958 of “very sweet, completely atmospheric and internally untrue images”. It was not until the Frankfurt exhibition in 1988 that there was a certain reassessment.

Works (selection)

Europe and the bull
  • Assumption of Mary , oil on copper 1596/1597, Städel , Frankfurt am Main.
  • Resurrection of Lazarus , 1619, Paris, Louvre .
  • Saint William of Aquitaine receives the order , 1620, Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale .
  • Erminia Visiting the Shepherds , 1620, Birmingham , Art Gallery
  • Entombment of St. Petronilla , 1621, Rome, Capitoline Museums
  • Aurora , 1612–1614, ceiling fresco, Rome, Palazzo Rospigliosi
  • San Filippo Neri , 1656
  • Gesù e la samaritana
  • Santa Cecilia
  • Flagellazione
  • Madonna con bambino
  • Il ritorno del figliol prodigo , 1619
  • Sibilla Persica , 1647
  • Angeli piangenti sul Cristo morto , 1618
  • Cristo risorto appare alla Vergine , 1629
  • San Luca , 1653
  • Susanna ei vecchioni
  • Deposizione 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 con angelo che suona il violino
  • Santa Margherita
  • Martirio di Santa Caterina , 1653
  • Santi patroni di Modena , 1652
  • Saul attacca Davide , 1646
  • San Romualdo , 1641
  • Sibilla Samia
  • Venere Marte e Cupid , 1633
  • Uomo nudo sdraiato , 1618
  • Saint Matthew Evangelist and the Angel , 1630, Vatican Pinacoteca
  • The Kentaur Eurytus robs the Lapiths bride Hippodame , 1620–21, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  • Atalante and Hippomenes , 1625, Naples, Museo di Capodimonte
  • Caritas , 1604-07, Florence, Palazzo Pitti
  • Child murder in Bethlehem , 1611–1612, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
  • Circoncisione di Gesù Cristo , created 1636, 371.5 × 216 cm, Siena, Chiesa di San Martino

photos

Museums and exhibitions

literature

17th century
  • Luca Assarino: Sensi di umiltà e di stupore intorno la grandezza dell'Eminentissimo Cardinale Sacchetti e le pitture di Guido Reni , Bologna 1639
  • Jacobus Gaufridius: Epistola de raptu Helenae a Guidone Rheno depicto , Bologna 1632
  • Girolamo Giacobbi: Lodi al Signor Guido Reni raccolte dall'Imperfetto Accademico Confuso , Bologna 1632
  • Annibale Marescotti: Il ratto d'Elena di Guido Reni, panegirico al cardinale Santa Croce, legato di Bologna , Bologna 1633
  • Giovan Battista Manzini: Il Trionfo del Pennello. Raccolta d'alcune compositioni nate à gloria d'un ratto d'Helena di Guido , Bologna 1633
  • Giovanni Pellegrino Pancaldi: Il Trionfo di Giobbe dipinto da Guido Reni , Bologna 1637
  • Carlo Emanuele Vizzani: Epistola greco-latina super raptum Helenae a Guidoni Rheni depictum , Bologna 1633
20./21. century

Web links

Commons : Guido Reni  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Guido Reni in the catalog of the Königliche Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden (1887)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon. Volume 16. Leipzig 1908, pp. 800-801 ( online ).
  2. ^ HW Grohn: Reni, Guido . In: Kindler's Malereilexikon . tape 5 . Kindler, Zurich 1968, p. 55 .
  3. ^ Joachim Fernau: Knaur's Lexicon of old painting . Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th.Knaur Nachf., Munich / Zurich 1958, p. 257 .
personal data
SURNAME Reni, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Calvenzano
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1642
Place of death Bologna