Happy Birthday, Guido Reni

Reni, Fighting Putti, 1625

I would have liked to have had an angelic brush and forms from Paradise in order to design the Archangel and to see it in heaven; but I could not ascend so high and in vain I sought it on earth; therefore I sought out the form in the concept I had established.

Guido Reni, born on this day in 1575