A Queen's Picture
A Queen's Picture. Guido Reni and European Diplomacy
A Queen's Picture. Guido Reni and European Diplomacy
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the painting in Bologna, which reveals an overly<br />
zealous restoration, the present painting is in a very<br />
good state of preservation, thereby allowing us to<br />
appreciate the extraordinary pictorial qualities so<br />
characteristic of the late work of Guido Reni.<br />
fig. 4 Guido Reni, Ariadne and Cupid, 1639-1640, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna<br />
As noted above, the figures of the two<br />
bacchantes in the painting are forcefully placed<br />
against a plain background. As in other cases – for<br />
example in the Apollo and Marsyas of Rouen – Reni<br />
emphasizes the figures by imbuing them with an<br />
almost Bernini-like sculptural effect. (He also<br />
exhibits a handling of extraordinary softness and
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