The overwhelming impression conveyed by the great baroque masters of the 17th century, from Caravaggio to Rubens, is their delight in optical illusions, soaring space, voluptuous forms and ...
and who loved Renaissance art and antiquity—had a good eye for new talent. Domenichino, as well as Borghese’s beneficiaries Guido Reni and the Carracci brothers, belonged to the Bolognese school, a ...