All the oil paintings of CRETI, Donato

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
6321		Achilles Handing over to Chiron dfg	Oil on canvas, 125 x 163 cm Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
30601		Astronomical Observation Sun	mk68 Oil on canvas 20"13 3/4" Vatican,Picture Gallery 171-1720 Italy
32283		Mercury and Paris	1745 Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm
6323		Mercury and Paris tyr	1745 Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna
6322		The Charity dfh	1745 Wood, diameter: 79 cm Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna

CRETI, Donato
Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1671, Bologna, d. 1749, Bologna) Italian painter and draughtsman. His individual and poetic art represents, with that of Marcantonio Franceschini, the last significant expression of the classical-idealist strain in Bolognese painting. His activity was almost wholly confined to Bologna, where he painted decorative frescoes, altarpieces and easel pictures for private collectors. Two qualities are paramount: a perfected finesse of handling and poetic suggestiveness of situation and mood. He sought the ideal beauty of the individual figure and was thus at his best in meditative pictures with few figures; his subjects combine grace of form and precision of contour with flesh that attains the surface delicacy of porcelain and colours that have a mineral-like refulgence.