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Guido Reni

Boehn, Max von, 1860-1932, Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) · 1910 · Bielefeld, Leipzig : Velhagen & Klasing, 1910. · 104 pictures

This 1910 monograph on the Bolognese painter Guido Reni was published in Bielefeld and Leipzig by Velhagen & Klasing, with text by Max von Boehn, and was aimed at art students and general readers of art history. Its plates are halftone reproductions of Baroque altarpieces and devotional paintings, showing dramatic upward gazes, soft draped fabric, and glowing cloud-borne figures; a designer might borrow the pale, luminous palette rendered in grey tonal contrast and the tilted, heavenward compositions for religious or classical-themed imagery.

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