Atalanta hippomenes guido reni biography

by Federico Giannini (Instagram: @federicogiannini1), published on 26/06/2022
Categories: Works and artists / Disclaimer

Guido Reni's Atalanta e Ippomene (Bologna, 1575 - 1642) is one of the great Bolognese painter's most famous paintings: a manifesto of his ideal beauty and a painting that condenses hints of Christian humanism according to a reading by Marc Fumaroli, it is preserved in Naples at the Museo di Capodimonte.

A great expert on things Emilian of the seventeenth century which was, nomen omen, the great Andrea Emiliani, wrote that one has long misunderstood the so-called “taste of the Bolognese,” one has considered it harmony that almost exceeded academicism, to the point of “almost feminizing Bolognese art.” In fact, “this harmony,” Emiliani wrote, “coexists indeed with a prevalent expressive naturalism, with a style, in short, that possesses