Abstract
A strong artistic personality of the first half of the 17th century: Guido Reni was almost forgotten for two centuries and rediscovered only from the 1960s. Today's awareness of his extensive work reaffirms the 17th century belief that the "divine Guido" deserved its glory.
Following on from Caravaggio and the three painters of the Carracci family, he achieved artistic power and brilliant technique at the time limit between their work and the Baroque in the narrower sense, to the birth of which he contributed in the 1920s of the "Seicento". Reni's work in our collections has now been enriched with a newly attributed painting in the Archdiocesan Museum Kroměříž.
The lecture is realized for the cultural public within the third role of the university in the original author's cycle Artist and Man.