Guido Reni's "Abduction of Helen": The Politics and Rhetoric of Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 1999| | Copyright

Anthony Colantuono, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 8 color pls. + 56 halftones + 4 line drawings + xiv + 304 pp. $75. ISBN: 0-521-56397-6.

Guido Reni was among the most famous artists in seventeenth-century Europe, and in his own lifetime the appellation "divine" put him on a par with such earlier luminaries as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Foremost a religious painter, Reni's Christian devotional subjects were long copied and imitated. In the late nineteenth century, however, appreciation of Reni's art plummeted; his religious works were often ...

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