Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1627-ca.1683 Related Paintings of Willem van :. | Landschap figuur op een brug bij een waterval | The Capture of the Royal Prince, 13 June 1666 | An Old Man Reading | Dutch Smalschips and a Rowing Boat | kanonskottet | Related Artists:
Nicola ForcellaItalian, 19th century
CRETI, DonatoItalian 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.
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