Guido Reni (1575-1642)
Guido Reni (1575-1642)
Painter, etcher and gambler. Worked mainly in Bologna and Rome. Visit to Naples in 1622.
Born in Bologna into a family of musicians. He was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that studio by Albani and Domenichino. He may also have trained with a painter by the name of Ferrantini. When Reni was about twenty years old, the three Calvaert pupils migrated to the rising rival studio, named Accademia degli Incamminati led by Lodovico Carracci. They went on to form the nucleus of a prolific and successful school of Bolognese painters who followed Annibale Carracci to Rome. By late 1601, Reni and Albani had moved to Rome[ to work with the teams led by Annibale Carracci in fresco decoration of the Farnese Palace. After a few year sojourn in Bologna, he returned to Rome to become one of the premier painters during the papacy of Paul V (Borghese). From 1607–1614, he was one of the painters patronized by the Borghese family.
In later years, Reni traveled to Naples.However, in Naples, the other local prominent painters, including Corenzio, Caracciolo and Ribera, were vehemently resistant to competitors, and according to rumor, conspired to poison or otherwise harm Reni (as may have befallen Domenichino in Naples after him). He passed briefly by Rome, but left that city abruptly, during the pontificate of Urban VIII, after being reprimanded by Cardinal Spinola.
Painter, etcher and gambler. Worked mainly in Bologna and Rome. Visit to Naples in 1622.Born in Bologna into a family of musicians. He was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that studio by Albani and Domenichino. He may also have trained with a painter by the name of Ferrantini. When Reni was about twenty years old, the three Calvaert pupils migrated to the rising rival studio, named Accademia degli Incamminati led by Lodovico Carracci. They went on to form the nucleus of a prolific and successful school of Bolognese painters who followed Annibale Carracci to Rome. By late 1601, Reni and Albani had moved to Rome[ to work with the teams led by Annibale Carracci in fresco decoration of the Farnese Palace. After a few year sojourn in Bologna, he returned to Rome to become one of the premier painters during the papacy of Paul V (Borghese). From 1607–1614, he was one of the painters patronized by the Borghese family.
In later years, Reni traveled to Naples.However, in Naples, the other local prominent painters, including Corenzio, Caracciolo and Ribera, were vehemently resistant to competitors, and according to rumor, conspired to poison or otherwise harm Reni (as may have befallen Domenichino in Naples after him). He passed briefly by Rome, but left that city abruptly, during the pontificate of Urban VIII, after being reprimanded by Cardinal Spinola.
Returning to Bologna, more or less permanently, Reni established a successful and prolific studio. His most distinguished pupil was Simone Cantarini, Reni died in Bologna in 1642. He is buried with Elisabetta Sirani in the Rosary Chapel of the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.
Bibliography Bartsch XVIII 275 (60 nos, plus 35 school pieces) TIB 4005 (by Veronika Birke; 38 nos plus rejected works; the numbering differs from Bartsch) D.S. Pepper, 'Guido Reni' Oxford, 1984 (catalogue of the paintings) J.T.Spike & T. Di Zio, in the Atti e Memorie of the Accademia Clementina XXII 1988, pp.43-65 (Reni's posthumous inventory in 1642) E.Negro & M.Pirondini (eds), 'La Scuola di Guido Reni', Modena 1992 (for 28 pupils)
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