Guido Reni | Baroque painter

Guido Reni, (born Nov. 4, 1575, Bologna, Papal States [Italy]-died Aug. 18, 1642, Bologna) early Italian Baroque painter noted for the classical idealism of his renderings of mythological and religious subjects.

First apprenticed to the Flemish painter Denis Calvaert at the age of 10, Reni was later influenced by the novel naturalism of the Carracci, a Bolognese family of painters.

Andrea Mantegna | Renaissance painter

Andrea Mantegna, (born 1431, Isola di Cartura [near Vicenza], Republic of Venice [Italy]-died September 13, 1506, Mantua), painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi ("Room of the Bride and Groom"), or Camera Picta ("Painted Room") (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, for which he developed a self-consistent illusion of a total environment. Mantegna’s other principal works include the Ovetari Chapel frescoes (1448-55) in the Eremitani Church in Padua and the Triumph of Caesar (begun c. 1486), the pinnacle of his late style.

Melozzo da Forlì | Early Renaissance painter

Melozzo da Forlì ⏩, original name Melozzo degli Ambrogi, (born June 8, 1438, Forlì, near Ravenna, Italy - died November 8, 1494, Forlì), early Renaissance painter⏩ whose style was influenced by Andrea Mantegna⏩ and Piero della Francesca ⏩.
Melozzo was one of the great fresco artists of the 15th century, and he is noted for his skilled use of illusionistic perspective and foreshortening.

Onorio Marinari (1627-1715) | Sant’Agnese

Onorio Marinari (1627 - January 5, 1715) was an Italian painter ⏭ and printmaker of the Baroque period ⏭, active mainly in Florence.

His father, Sigismondo di Pietro Marinari, was also a painter, and he trained with his cousin, Carlo Dolci ⏭, later being also influenced by Simone Pignoni and Francesco Furini ⏭.

His fresco in the Palazzo Capponi, Florence, is dated 1707. In 1674 he published his illustrated Fabbrica ed uso dell'Annulo Astronomico. Bartolomeo Bimbi was one of his pupils.

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