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"Aurora" by After Guido Reni #1366228

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 Aurora  by After Guido Reni #1366228
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"Aurora" by After Guido Reni </em></td>
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inscribed " R. Renzi Capio Roma 1887 "

This is a 19th century copy after the 1614, fresco, at the Casino Rospigliosi, Palazzo Pallavicini, Rome. During Guido Reni's second stay in Rome he directly tackled themes from classical Antiquity. While this composition was openly derived from classical art, it was meant in the spirit of purest love and has a genuine if rather insipid beauty.

Though a ceiling decoration, it is composed in the form of a frieze as if painted on a wall. Here the artist was rebelling against the spatial researches which at that time were exciting such passionate interest in Lanfranco and Pietro da Cortona.

Reni was commissioned to paint frescoes; the most famous of these was Aurora and the Hours, done for the Borghese family.

GUIDO RENI (1575-1642), a prime master in. the Bolognese school of painting, and one of the most admired artists of the period of incipient decadence in Italy, was born at Calvenzano near Bologna on the 4th of November 1575. His father was a musician of repute, a player on the flageolet; he wished to bring the lad up to perform on the harpsichord. At a very childish age, however, Guido displayed a determined bent towards the art of form, scribbling some attempt at a drawing here, there and everywhere. He was only nine years of age when Denis Calvart took notice of him, received him into his academy of design by the fathers permission, and rapidly brought him forward, so that by the age of thirteen Gti~ido had already attained marked ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:19th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:After Guido Reni 1575-1642</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:24.00</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:60.00</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:"Aurora" by After Guido Reni</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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