Painter: Guido Reni
Colors: 90
Price: 1755 Euro
Dimensions: 30 * 39 cm

Guido Reni (4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.

Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that studio by Albani and Domenichino. He may also have trained with a painter by the name of Ferrantini. When Reni was about twenty years old, the three Calvaert pupils migrated to the rising rival studio, named Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the “newly embarked”, or progressives), led by Lodovico Carracci. They went on to form the nucleus of a prolific and successful school of Bolognese painters who followed Annibale Carracci to Rome. Like many other Bolognese painters, Reni’s painting was thematic and eclectic in style.

Jesus is shown after the Mocking of Christ when he was crowned with thorns. New Testament (e.g. John 19: 1-3).

This painting was inspired by one of the numerous versions of this subject painted by Guido Reni (such as that in Paris, Louvre). The picture, which may have been painted as late as the early 18th century, has a provenance from the collection of Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga in Rome. It can be seen in a painting by Giovanni Paolo Panini which shows a view of Valenti’s gallery, painted in 1749 (Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum).

Painter: Raphael Sanzio
Colors: 90
Price: 4200 Euro
Dimensions: 45 * 46.8 cm

Raphael’s Deposition was painted for Atalanta Baglioni in memory of her son Grifonetto, who was killed in the fighting for the dominance of Perugia, and housed in the church of S.Francesco in Perugia in 1507. It remained there for 101 years, until it was removed at night with the complicity of the priest and sent to Pope Paul V, who gave it to his nephew for his collection and it thus became the property of the Borghese family. After the Treaty of Tolentino the painting was sent to Paris in 1797. When it came back to Rome in 1816, only the central scene was returned to the Borghese collection, while the three theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity, remained in the Vatican Museums (the ornamentation surmounting it by Tiberio Alfani is in the National Gallery of Umbria).
This large altarpiece presents the scene like a Roman relief and is inspired by the reliefs on ancient Roman sarcophagi depicting the transportation of Meleager. It is interesting to note that in his preliminary sketch the artist has drawn Christ lying in the ground, as in the painting by Perugino, but when he executed the painting he decided on the antique form of transportation, as seen in a relief he probably studied on the Montalvo sarcophagus in Florence (now in the Torno Collection, Milan). But the influence of Michelangelo can also be seen in the composition of Christ (cf. the Pietà, St.Peter’s) and the figure seen in the profile supporting the Madonna repeats a similar pose in the Doni Tondo (in the Uffizi, completed a year before the Deposition).

Painter: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Colors: 90
Price: 2000 Euro
Dimensions: 40 * 25.4 cm

The Entombment of Christ, c. 1656, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 — 1666), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. Guercino is Italian for squinter, a nickname that was given to him because he was cross-eyed. He is especially noted for his many superb drawings.

Painter: Simon Vouet
Colors: 90
Price: 2600 Euro
Dimensions: 43.8 * 30 cm

Christ On The Cross, c. 1636, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

Simon Vouet(1590 - 1649) was a French painter and draftsman, who helped introduce the Italian Baroque style to France. Vouet was born in Paris and held his training under his father, also a painter.

Painter: Vincenzo Catena
Colors: 90
Price: 1400 Euro
Dimensions: 25 * 28.8 cm

Christ bearing the Cross, c. 1520/1530, Liechtenstein Museum Italian, Vienna, Austria

Vincenzo Catena (1470 - 1531) was a Venetian painter of the Renaissance. He is also known as Vincenzo de Biagio. His interaction in the humanist circles allowed him to meet Giorgione, with whom he had some sort of partnership. Catena’s paintings were mainly influenced by Bellini and Titian.

Painter: Sandro Botticelli
Colors: 90
Price: 2700 Euro
Dimensions: 45 * 30.4 cm

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento). His posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting, and The Birth of Venus and Primavera rank now among the most familiar masterpieces of Florentine art.