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November 4, 2016

Guido Reni (1575-1642),

St. Jerome Praying in a Cave, c.1600, etching, 8 5/16 x 5 3/8 inches. Brigham Young University Museum of Art, purchase/gift of the Mahonri M. Young Estate, 1959.

Italian painter Guido Reni was born on this day in 1575. Reni painted in the high-Baroque style, painting mostly religious subjects.