Guido Reni in Rome. A guide
144
pages
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1^
ed.
2022
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Guides
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ENG
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ISBN 9791254630563
The Bolognese painter Guido Reni was described by the great sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini as “extremely rich in his Ideas, and therefore all the more appealing in his Paintings.” The artist arrived in Rome in the early seventeenth century, where he painted extensively and in his own distinctive way: his works in the city are ubiquitous and impossible to miss. The aim of this guide is to make the reader-visitor see Rome the way Guido Reni saw it.
At the start and at the end of this book are reproductions of two of Guido’s portraits from when he arrived in and later left Rome. The twenty three locations around the city—museums, churches, private and institutional residences—are recounted in short descriptive texts focusing on the seventeenth century, as well as in engravings or paintings portraying them as they were while Reni was living there. Entries for a selection of twenty eight works by Reni, with up-to-date information regarding iconography, art history, and conservation, accompanied by further information connecting this artist to the life of the city and the current affairs in his day, providing a key to understand Reni’s success in Rome and in Europe, a success that earned him the name of “Divin Guido”.This itinerary is a handy companion for those who will have the chance to admire Reni’s works from close up, or intend to undertake this journey through seventeenth-century Rome from the comfort of their own home.
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