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RENI, Guido
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Cleopatra_with_the_Asp
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c._1630
Oil_on_canvas,_113,7_x_94,9_cm
Royal_Collection,_Windsor
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| c. 1630
Oil on canvas, 113,7 x 94,9 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor |
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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.
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