Guido Reni's Amorini in gioco coming to Rimini City Museums

The Museums of the City of Rimini are preparing to welcome another masterpiece this spring, after the Madonna Diotallevi by the young Raphael returned to Berlin.

It will be Guido Reni’s Landscape with Cupids at Play: the artist, among the great painters of the seventeenth century, depicted fourteen cupids in a natural setting among shrubs and trees and in the background a crystalline horizon. The work belongs to a private gallerist and in the coming weeks, once the authorization procedures by the Superintendence have been completed, it will be exhibited in the museum venue, thanks to the collaboration of Massimo Pulini, an artist, critic and former culture councilor of the Municipality of Rimini, who was among the first to attribute the painting to the Emilian artist and author of an essay dedicated to the ’cupids at play.

“The enchanting painting speaks of an infinite moment that unfolds several simultaneous events,” Pulini writes in the essay published by Altomani & sons, “none of which boasts dominance over the others, although all the episodes form a symbolic whole. Each happening is inscribed in an ancient present, fixed in the eternal, in the immutable time of myth and in the transparent amber of painting. Love plays tricks and mocks love, this seems to suggest to us in the vision.”

Pictured: Guido Reni, Landscape with Cupids at Play, detail

Guido Reni's Amorini in gioco coming to Rimini City Museums

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