The Italian painter Guido Reni (1575-1642) is known for the gentle, highly decorative form of baroque classicism he developed. Guido Reni was born in Bologna on Nov. 4, 1575. He began his apprenticeship under the mannerist painter Denis Calvaert and...

Richard E. Spear, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. 25 color pls. + 125 halftones + 430 pp. $60. ISBN: 0-300-07035-7. Guido Reni was among the most famous artists in seventeenth-century Europe, and in his own lifetime the appellation "divine"...

RICHARD E. SPEAR New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 430 pp.; 39 color ills., 134 b/w. $65 On the cover of Richard Spear's The "Divine" Guido one sees a virginal Hippomenes shoving Atalanta off the page, over the spine, and onto...