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Donato Creti

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/chndm_1931-65-17
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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.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (7)

The Astronomers

1701 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on buff laid paper

24.1 × 32.5 cm (9 1/2 × 12 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Child's Head

1691 · Red chalk on ivory laid paper

13 × 13.8 cm (5 1/8 × 5 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death of Dido

1691 · Pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper

13 × 16.4 cm (5 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman in Ecstasy, and Putti

1691 · Red chalk on ivory laid paper

28 × 30.7 cm (11 1/16 × 12 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rinaldo and Armida

1683 · Pen and brown ink, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper

15 × 19.1 cm (5 15/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

1600 · Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

24.5 × 18.5 cm (9 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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7 published of 7 catalogued · 7 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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