Antique Warriors and Mythological Subjects

1691·Pen and brown ink, with traces of graphite, on 13 sheets of paper laid down on pink tinted laid paper·39.2 × 25.7 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/8 in.)

The Charles Deering Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1691
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with traces of graphite, on 13 sheets of paper laid down on pink tinted laid paper
Dimensions: 39.2 × 25.7 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Donato Creti

Artist

Donato Creti

Painting

Donato Creti was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna, Papal States. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style. It is an academicized grand style that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures. Among his followers were Aureliano Milani, Francesco Monti, and Ercole Graziani the Younger. Two other pupils were Domenico Maria Fratta and Giuseppe Peroni.

Cremona, Italy

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