The Immaculate Conception, 1627, Oil on canvas, 105 1/2 x 73 in. (268 x cm), Paintings, Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575

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The Immaculate Conception, 1627, Oil on canvas, 105 1/2 x 73 in. (268 x cm), Paintings, Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna), Reni, the most celebrated painter of seventeenth-century Italy, was particularly famous for the beauty of his female heads and the devotional effectiveness of his pictures of the Virgin Mary. This altarpiece was commissioned in about 1627 by the Spanish Ambassador, the Count of Oñate, for the Infanta of Spain

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