Guido Reni (November 4, 1575 - August 18, 1642) was a prominent Italian painter of high-Baroque
He was born in Bologna into a family of musicians - son of Danieli Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi - and as a child of 9 apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon, he was joined in that studio by Albani and Domenichino. He is also reputed to have trained with a painter by the name of Ferrantini. The three Calvaert pupils, when Reni was about twenty years old, migrated to the rising rival studio, the so-called Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of "newly embarked or progressives) led by Lodovico Caracci. They were to form the nucleus of a prolific and successful school of Bolognese painters who followed Annibale Carracci to Rome. Like many other Bolognese painters, Reni was eclectic in style and thematic
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