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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Fortuna and Amor before 1670 oil on canvas Fondazione Sorgente Group, Rome |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Minerva, Venus, Juno (Judgment of Paris) 1638 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani St Jerome before 1670 oil on canvas private collection |
" . . . the Reni succession at Bologna need not detain us: Francesco Gessi (1588-1649), Giovan Giacomo Sementi (1580-1636), Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610-1670) and his daughter Elisabetta (1638-1665), or Luca Ferrari from Reggio (1605-1654) who transplanted his master's manner to Padua and Modena. These mediocre talents transformed the positive qualities of Reni's late 'classicism' – the unorthodox simplicity of his inventions – into compositions of boring pedantry; his refined silvery tonality into a frigid scale of light tones; his vibrant tenderness into sentimentality; and his late 'sketchy' manner with its directness of appeal was neither understood nor followed."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Ulysses and Circe ca. 1650-55 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Presentation of the Virgin ca. 1643 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Four Dancing Putti before 1670 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Two Dancing Putti before 1670 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Cupid ca. 1630-50 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani St Sebastian before 1670 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Prometheus before 1670 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Andrea Sirani Apollo and Marsyas before 1670 etching Harvard Art Museums |
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| attributed to Giovanni Andrea Sirani Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1630-40 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| follower of Giovanni Andrea Sirani Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1650 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| follower of Giovanni Andrea Sirani David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1650-70 oil on canvas private collection |