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Of other works not already noticed, the following should be named:--in
Rome (the Vatican), the "Crucifixion of St Peter," an example of the
painter's earlier manner; in S. Lorenzo in Lucina, "Christ Crucified";
in Forli, the "Conception"; in Bologna, the "Alms of St Roch" (early),
the "Massacre of the Innocents," and the "Pieta, or Lament over the
Body of Christ" (in the church of the Mendicanti), which is by many
regarded as Guido's prime executive work; in the Dresden Gallery, an
"Ecce Homo"; in Milan (Brera Gallery), "Saints Peter and Paul"; in
Genoa (church of S. Ambrogio), the "Assumption of the Virgin"; in
Berlin, "St Paul the Hermit and St Anthony in the Wilderness." The
celebrated picture of "Fortune" (in the Capitol) is one of Reni's
finest treatments of female form; as a specimen of male form, the
"Samson Drinking from the Jawbone of an Ass" might be named beside it.
One of his latest works of mark is the "Ariadne," which used to be in
the Gallery of the Capitol. The Louvre contains twenty of his
pictures, the National Gallery of London seven, and others were once
there, now removed to other public collections. The most interesting
of the seven is the small "Coronation of the Virgin," painted on
copper, an elegantly finished work, more pretty than beautiful. It was
probably painted before the master quitted Bologna for Rome.
For the life and works of Guido Reni, see Bolognini, _Vita di Guido
Reni_ (1839); Passeri, _Vite de' pittori_; and Malvasia, _Felsina
Pittrice_; also Lanzi, _Storia pitiorica_. (W. M. R.)
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