 But moving to Venice under the name of "Guido or" "Guidobaldo Canlassi da Bologna", he renewed a friendship with Nicolas Regnier, and dedicated himself to private salon paintings.These often depicted sensuous naked women from thigh upwards, including Lucretia, Cleopatra, and Mary Magdalene.This allies him to a strand of courtly painting, epitomized in Florence by Francesco Furini, Simone Pignoni and others.