#history Guido Reni belonged to the Bolognese School (effectively in Bologna, in the 16th and 17th centuries) and was one of the artists who gave the most prestige to this sub-movement of the Italian Baroque.

His biography is typical, topical It is curious how many artists started the same way: At the age of nine, he entered as an apprentice in a Bolognese workshop where he spent a few years in the apprenticeship period. It is also curious that many artists of today, many of them “child prodigies” can do without those essential years.

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