Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1671, Bologna, d. 1749, Bologna) Italian painter and draughtsman. His individual and poetic art represents, with that of Marcantonio Franceschini, the last significant expression of the classical-idealist strain in Bolognese painting. His activity was almost wholly confined to Bologna, where he painted decorative frescoes, altarpieces and easel pictures for private collectors. Two qualities are paramount: a perfected finesse of handling and poetic suggestiveness of situation and mood. He sought the ideal beauty of the individual figure and was thus at his best in meditative pictures with few figures; his subjects combine grace of form and precision of contour with flesh that attains the surface delicacy of porcelain and colours that have a mineral-like refulgence.  Related Paintings of CRETI, Donato :. | Guy Victor Duperre | The Battle Between Carnival and Lent | The Court of Gonzaga | Breakers at Granville | Portrait of Sir Samuel Morland |
Related Artists:
John Garrick
painted The Death of King Arthur in 1862
Anna Althea Hills
1882-1930
Ludwig Deutsch
Austrian-born French Academic Painter, 1855-1935