Guido Reni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Best known for his commissioned frescos in chapels and for his oil paintings of biblical and mythological scenes, Reni’s work is characterized ...

80 x 64.5 cm. (31.5 x 25.4 in.) We are grateful to Massimo Pulini for endorsing the attribution on the basis of a photograph and for his help in cataloguing. His written report accompanies this lot.

Living the nightmare of any museum visitor who has brushed up too close to a painting at an exhibition, a tourist in Rome has fallen onto the Baroque artist Guido Reni’s St. Francis receiving the ...

This beautiful, but unfortunate, young Italian lady was the daughter of a nobleman of high rank. Having killed her father for criminal conduct towards her, the severe law of a barbarous age doomed her ...