Free downloadable paintings and coloring pages by Guido Reni. Guido Reni (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɡwiːdo ˈrɛːni]; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. He painted primarily religious works, as well as mythological and allegorical subjects. Active in Rome, Naples, and his native Bologna, he became the dominant figure in the Bolognese School, and his eclectic classicism was widely influential.
Details: The Immaculate Conception in Baroque art is characterized by its dramatic and emotional depictions of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a pure and sinless figure. Typically, the subject is represented through a combination of elements, such as dove symbolism, the presence of stars, and rays of light emanating...
Details: A guardian angel is an angel who is tasked with protecting and guiding a certain person, community, or nation. The belief in tutelary entities may be traced back to antiquity. The concept of angels watching over humanity was important in Ancient Judaism. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite significantly established the hierarchy...
Details: The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who...
Details A Madonna (Italian: [maˈdɔn.na]) is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna 'my lady'. The Madonna and Child type is very prevalent in Christian iconography,...
Details The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Description0:00/0:451×Image Details ‘St. Cecilia’ was created in c.1610 by Guido Reni in Baroque style. Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia) was a Roman martyr venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details The young John the Baptist kisses Mary's hand. The Christ Child leans against Mary's shoulder. Behind them is Joseph. On the left is a vase. Source [https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-36.989]...
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🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details Drawing the Christ Child and young John the Baptist together was a popular artistic subject in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Although we do not have direct Biblical evidence that Christ and the Baptist...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, and holds that the Virgin Mary "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details ‘The Penitent Magdalene’ was created in 1635 by Guido Reni in Baroque style. Reni created an idealized, as well as classical style influenced by ancient sculpture and by the Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520). This...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A crucifix is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus. The crucifix is a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna 'my lady'. the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! ‘St Cecilia’ was created in 1606 by Guido Reni in Baroque style. Saint Cecilia, is a Roman martyr venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This large altarpiece was in the artist's studio when he died, and parts of the composition appear incomplete. Some figures lack color, and Reni never finished the wooden structure. The silvery ground layer appears everywhere, as...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This intimate drawing captures the close relationship between a mother and child. Guido Reni emphasized the Holy Family's humanity and the infant's love and neediness, not his divinity as the Christ. Although a lightly drawn Joseph...
Genesis (39:7–20) tells how Joseph, sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, was bought by Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's guard. Potiphar's wife (who is not named in the Bible) took a liking to the young man and made several failed attempts to seduce him. Here, Reni illustrates one...
This small devotional picture by an anonymous 17th-century Venetian artist drew his composition from Guido Reni's large St. Andrew Led to Martyrdom fresco in Rome's Church of San Gregorio al Celio. The CMA painting portrays the central image of Reni's 1608 fresco by Reni. St. Andrew and his brother Peter...
In this large canvas, Guido Reni, a leading seventeenth-century Bolognese painter, depicted one of the New Testament’s more macabre stories. Salome, the daughter of Queen Herodias, so pleased her stepfather, Herod Antipas, by dancing at his birthday feast that he promised to grant her any wish. Prompted by her...
The Old Testament tells of the shepherd boy, David, who felled a seemingly invincible adversary, Goliath, by slinging a stone that struck the giant on the forehead. The Biblical hero then used Goliath's own sword to cut off his head. Here, Cagnacci depicts David after the victory, when he made...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! St. Michael is one of the principal angels; his name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven against the enemy and his followers. Four times his name is recorded in...
