# Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, in 16th-century Italy

Guido Reni painted this in the 1600s, aged about 25. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This small devotional picture by an anonymous 17th-century Venetian artist drew his composition from Guido Reni's large St. Andrew Led to Martyrdom fresco in Rome's Church of San Gregorio al Celio. The CMA painting portrays the central image of Reni's 1608 fresco by Reni. St.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1600s
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 55.3 x 47 x 7.7 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/2 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 40.7 x 34.6 cm (16 x 13 5/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.784
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Guido Reni](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/guido-reni), Italian, 1575–1642

Reni trained in Bologna, first with Denys Calvaert and then at the Carracci academy, and spent the early 1600s in Rome, where his fresco Aurora won wide fame.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Guido Reni](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/guido-reni?hang=749) (6 works)
- [More Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/renaissance?hang=749) (78 works)
- [The 16th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/16?hang=749) (210 works)

## Get it

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