Meet the 'Friar With a Gold Earring' at The Ringling
The groundbreaking exhibit of 17th century Italian art at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art closes Jan. 7.
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The groundbreaking exhibit of 17th century Italian art at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art closes Jan. 7.
Let's look at how the celebrated 17th-century Italian artist Guido Reni painted using ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary art traditions.
Had Domenico Zampieri – Domenichino – been a happy man, he might never have painted a landscape. For all his talent, he was by nature timid and unsure, traits that invited jealous enemies – “of whom no painter ever had more”, as one Victorian apologist put it – to persecute him both as a person and as an artist. His landscapes – a low genre of art in the 17th century – were