A sleeping cupid, 1630–45, Chiaroscuro woodcut in blue-gray and black printed from two blocks, Sheet: 11 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (29.5 × 37.2 cm), Prints, Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian, Bologna ca. 1599–ca. 1676 Bologna (?)), After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna), Many statues of sleeping cupids survived from antiquity, inspiring artists such Michelangelo and François Duquesnoy to sculpt their own versions. Reni's painted representations of sleeping infants, including the Christ Child, were particularly prized, as was this print, which the seventeenth-century art historian Carlo Cesare Malvasia called 'the famous head of the sleeping Cupid
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sleeping cupid, 1630–45, Chiaroscuro woodcut, blue-gray, black printed, two blocks, Sheet, 11 5/8, 14, 29.5, 37.2 cm, Prints, Bartolomeo Coriolano, Italian, Bologna ca., 1599–ca., 1676, Bologna, After Guido Reni, 1575–1642, statues, cupids, survived, antiquity, inspiring artists, Michelangelo, François Duquesnoy, sculpt, own versions, Reni, painted representations, infants, Christ Child, particularly prized, print, seventeenth-century art, historian, Carlo, Cesare, Malvasia, famous head, Cupid
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