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Catalogue
- Year
- 1701
- Dimensions
- 24.1 × 32.5 cm (9 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Donato Creti
Artist
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.
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Record
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- Donato Creti
- Year
- 1701
- Dimensions
- 24.1 × 32.5 cm (9 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1701-332153
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
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