Ercole de Maria (? – c. 1640) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy He was a pupil of the painter Guido Reni. Guido Reni ( 4 November 1575 &ndash 18 August 1642) was a prominent Italian painter of high- Baroque style Also known as Ercolino di Guido. He was awarded knighthood by Urban VIII, but died young. Pope