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CRETI, Donato
Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1671, Bologna, d. 1749, Bologna)
Italian painter and draughtsman. His individual and poetic art represents, with that of Marcantonio Franceschini, the last significant expression of the classical-idealist strain in Bolognese painting. His activity was almost wholly confined to Bologna, where he painted decorative frescoes, altarpieces and easel pictures for private collectors. Two qualities are paramount: a perfected finesse of handling and poetic suggestiveness of situation and mood. He sought the ideal beauty of the individual figure and was thus at his best in meditative pictures with few figures; his subjects combine grace of form and precision of contour with flesh that attains the surface delicacy of porcelain and colours that have a mineral-like refulgence.
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Achilles Handing over to Chiron dfg
Oil on canvas, 125 x 163 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
Painting ID:: 6321
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Achilles_Handing_over_to_Chiron_dfg
Oil on canvas, 125 x 163 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
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The Charity dfh
1745
Wood, diameter: 79 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
Painting ID:: 6322
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The_Charity_dfh
1745
Wood, diameter: 79 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
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Mercury and Paris tyr
1745
Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
Painting ID:: 6323
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Mercury_and_Paris_tyr
1745
Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm
Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
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Astronomical Observation Sun
mk68
Oil on canvas
20"13 3/4"
Vatican,Picture Gallery
171-1720
Italy
Painting ID:: 30601
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Astronomical_Observation_Sun
mk68
Oil on canvas
20"13 3/4"
Vatican,Picture Gallery
171-1720
Italy
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Mercury and Paris
1745
Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm
Painting ID:: 32283
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Mercury_and_Paris
1745
Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm
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CRETI,_Donato
Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1671, Bologna, d. 1749, Bologna)
Italian painter and draughtsman. His individual and poetic art represents, with that of Marcantonio Franceschini, the last significant expression of the classical-idealist strain in Bolognese painting. His activity was almost wholly confined to Bologna, where he painted decorative frescoes, altarpieces and easel pictures for private collectors. Two qualities are paramount: a perfected finesse of handling and poetic suggestiveness of situation and mood. He sought the ideal beauty of the individual figure and was thus at his best in meditative pictures with few figures; his subjects combine grace of form and precision of contour with flesh that attains the surface delicacy of porcelain and colours that have a mineral-like refulgence.
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