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Domenichino fully subscribed to the classical notion that painting was like silent poetry and required a stylized expressive vocabulary to be properly understood and deciphered.
Together with his fellow northern Italian painters, Guido Reni (1575–1642), Francesco Albani (1578–1660), Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647), and Guercino (1591–1666), Domenico Zampieri—known after his small stature as Domenichino (little Domenico)—is one of the towering figures of seventeenth-century painting. Indeed (showing 500 of 5094 characters). |
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