Guido Reni, 1642 - Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist - fine art print

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In this depiction of a meeting between the young Christ and Saint John the Baptist, Guido Reni eliminated unnecessary detail and concentrated on the scene's emotional qualities. The eyes of the two children meet as Mary looks on. The doves that the Christ Child gives to his cousin are an allusion to both Jesus's future role as the King of Peace as well as his eventual sacrifice. Joseph enters through a doorway in the background.

Although using oil, Reni applied his color with the broad brushwork of fresco painting. He outlined important details with dark, jagged strokes. It was once thought that the sketchy appearance of Reni's late works meant that they were unfinished, but like many aging artists, Reni pared form and color to the bare essentials for purely expressive purposes.

Lost for centuries, this painting reappeared in the possession of a family in Michigan who sold it to the Getty Museum in 1984.

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Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist is an artwork made by the painter Guido Reni in 1642. Nowadays, this artpiece is part of the digital art collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum. This public domain artpiece is being included with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.: . Besides, the alignment is portrait and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Guido Reni was a male painter, whose style can primarily be attributed to Baroque. The European painter was born in 1575 in Bologna, Bologna province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and died at the age of 67 in the year 1642 in Bologna, Bologna province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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