Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni
ca. 1640–70
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 16 7/16 × 10 9/16 in. (41.8 × 26.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.1522
Tags
About the Artist
Guido Reni|Gian Battista Bolognini · 1575–1642
Guido Reni (1575–1642) was one of the most celebrated Italian painters of the Baroque era and the dominant figure of the Bolognese School. Born into a family of musicians in Bologna, he trained first with Denys Calvaert before joining the influential Accademia degli Incamminati led by Ludovico Carracci. Reni achieved international fame through his idealizing style that combined Baroque dynamism wi...