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Guido Reni, artist
Italian, 1575 - 1642
The Holy Family with Scriptural Scene in the Background, 16th - 17th century
Etching
22.1 x 14.2 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1995.124.35

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Artist Biography: Painter and etcher. Studied with Denis Calvaert as a youth, then entered the Carracci school. Worked in Rome and Naples, returning finally to Bologna. Baroque painter notable for the classical idealism of his renderings of mythological and religious subjects. ~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre-graveur. Vol. XVIII. W¸rzburg: 1920~Birke, Veronika. Italian Masters of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 40. New York: 1982, Abaris Books.~Birke, Veronika. Italian Masters of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 40 (Commentary). New York: 1987, Abaris Books.~Bertel‡, G.G., and S. Ferrara. Incisori Bolognesi ed Emiliani del secolo XVII. Bologna, 1973.~

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