Guido Reni and the Gazes at the Sky

Guido Reni and the Gazes at the Sky

Six Paintings. One Concept

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Guido Reni was a painter of the Bolognese school, an academy of Bologna that promoted classical values first during Mannerism and then during the Baroque. Simplicity, sobriety, equilibrium, harmony and naturalness, against sophistication, exaggeration, theatricality and “artificiality” characteristic of those movements.

Reni’s work is classical, and we can observe the admiration for Raphael’s grace. And when the artist wants to transmit emotion, he often directs the gazes towards God. Looks that sometimes remind us of the sweetness of Raphael’s Madonnas, and sometimes they are pretty “theatrical.”

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