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Jun 14 2010

Michael Trampling Satan, Guido Reni, 1635

Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Reni - 1 year ago - troycapc

Michael Trampling Satan, Guido Reni, 1635

This is a reproduction of Guido Reni’s 1635 masterpiece “Saint Michael the Archangel tramples on Satan”.  The original is in the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome.  Satan is here represented by the recognizable features of Pope Innocent X.

Guido Reni was born in 1575 Bologna and from the age of nine he professionally trained as a painting artist.  In about 1595 he joined Lodovico Carracci in the Academy of Progressive, Accademia degli Incamminati.  He was a leading light in the Bolognese school at Rome to which he moved in late 1601.  He worked there, in Naples, in Bologna and several other cities in Italy.  After 1613 he mostly resided in Bologna where he died in 1642.

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