In the eyes of G. B. Passeri, a contemporary biographer, Guido Reni was "the noblest, most majestic painter who ever lived- not only in my own opinion, but by common consent.” Reni, the most celebrated Italian painter of the seventeenth century, was…
The Separation of Night from Day happens in the story of the Creation. A winged celestial being or spirit, who has variously been called Dawn or Twilight, separates two figures with two wands. Day, a scantily clad young man, moves swiftly towards the…