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Born April 5, 1648 • Bologna • Italy
Died December 24, 1729 (aged 81) • Bologna • Italy
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Bolognese school

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Franceschini, Marcantonio: Hagar and the Angel
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Last Communion of Saint Jerome, oil painting by Domenichino, 1614; in the Vatican Museum.
Domenichino
Italian painter
Il Guercino: Abraham Driving Out Hagar and Ishmael
Il Guercino
Italian artist
Plate 13: “Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome.
Guido Reni
Italian painter
Lanfranco, Giovanni: Assumption of the Virgin
Giovanni Lanfranco
Italian painter
Cignani, Carlo: Satyr and Woman
Carlo Cignani
Italian painter
Pietro da Cortona: St. Martina
Pietro da Cortona
Italian artist
Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco: Saint Cecilia and an Angel
Orazio Gentileschi
Italian painter
“Fortune Teller,” oil painting by Piazzetta, 1740; in the Accademia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian painter
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Vitale da Bologna
Italian artist
Albani, Francesco: Paris Awarding the Apple to Venus
Francesco Albani
Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio): The Triumph of the Name of Jesus
Baciccio
Italian painter
Agostino Carracci: engraving of Titian's Tiziano Vecelli
Agostino Carracci
Italian painter
Ciro Ferri: Triumph of Bacchus
Ciro Ferri
Italian painter
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Sebastiano Conca
Italian painter
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Baldassare Franceschini
Italian painter
Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen, oil on canvas by Simon Vouet, c. 1627; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 101.6 × 78.74 cm.
Simon Vouet
French painter
Coello, Claudio: Adoration of the Holy Eucharist
Claudio Coello
Spanish painter
Jean Jouvenet: The Raising of Lazarus
Jean Jouvenet
French painter
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Titian: Venus of Urbino
Titian
Italian painter

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