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Guido is a given name of Italian origin also utilised as a given name in Spanish. Guido is derived from the Ancient Germanic Wido. and Latin name Vito. The French and English version is Guy.
In the United States, "guido" is sometimes used as a derogatory slur to refer to those who appear to fall within an Italian-American stereotype.
Guido Reni (4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.
Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that studio by Albani and Domenichino. He may also have trained with a painter by the name of Ferrantini. When Reni was about twenty years old, the three Calvaert pupils migrated to the rising rival studio, named Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the "newly embarked", or progressives), led by Lodovico Carracci. They went on to form the nucleus of a prolific and successful school of Bolognese painters who followed Annibale Carracci to Rome. Like many other Bolognese painters, Reni's painting was thematic and eclectic in style.
By late 1601, Reni and Albani had moved to Rome to work with the teams led by Annibale Carracci in fresco decoration of the Farnese Palace. During 1601-1604, his main patron was Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati. By 1604-1605, he received an independent commission for an altarpiece of the Crucifixion of St. Peter. After a few year sojourn in Bologna, he returned to Rome to become one of the premier painters during the papacy of Paul V (Borghese). From 1607-1614, he was one of the painters patronized by the Borghese family.
You're a mystery to me
Got to me blind so i can't see
where i stand
i'm in your hands
Who do you love
is it me or just yourself
Who do you love oh
Do you need anyone else
'Cause i've tried and tried
to read your mind
Who do you love
Who do you love
I want to know
Ooh you make me twist and turn
But you don't care how much i burn
My world falls down
When you're around
Who do you love
is it me or just yourself
Who do you love oh
Do you need anyone else
'Cause i've tried and tried
to read your mind
Who do you love
Who do you love
I want to know
We should be together