Dutch painter (b. 1580, Antwerpen, d. 1666, Haarlem). Related Paintings of HALS, Frans :. | The Meagre Company (detail) a | The Merry Drinker sg | Family Portrait in a Landscape | The Group of Children | Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse sg | Related Artists:
J.ThornthwaiteBritish.fl.late eighteenth century
RENI, GuidoItalian 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.
Armando de Bastopainted Retrato in 1910