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GUERCINO Angels Weeping over the Dead Christ hj 1618
Oil on copper, 36 x 44 cm
National Gallery, London
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GUERCINO Et in Arcadia Ego kh 1618-22
Oil on canvas, 82 x 91 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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GUERCINO Aurora ig 1621
Fresco
Casino Ludovisi, Rome
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GUERCINO Aurora ihi 1621-23
Fresco
Casino Ludovisi, Rome
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GUERCINO A Donor Presented to the Virgin lkhi 1616
Oil on canvas, 309 x 192 cm
Mus??es Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
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GUERCINO Ermina Finds the Wounded Tancred jg 1618-19
Oil on canvas, 145,5 x 187,5 cm
Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
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GUERCINO The Martyrdom of St Peter jg 1618-19
Oil on canvas, 320 x 193 cm
Galleria Estense, Modena
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GUERCINO Return of the Prodigal Son klgh 1619
Oil on canvas, 106,5 x 143,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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GUERCINO Raising of Lazarus hjf c. 1619
Oil on canvas, 199 x 233 cm
Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
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GUERCINO The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin hf 1629
Oil on canvas, 260 x 179 cm
Pinacoteca Comunale, Cento
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GUERCINO Samson Captured by the Philistines uig 1619
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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GUERCINO Susanna and the Elders kyh 1617
Oil on canvas, 175 x 207 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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GUERCINO St William of Aquitaine Receiving the Cowln ngb 1620
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna
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GUERCINO St Augustine Washing the Feet of the Redeemer kg Oil on canvas
S. Agostino in Campo Marzio, Rome
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GUERCINO St Augustine, St John the Baptist and St Paul the Hermit hf Oil on canvas
S. Agostino in Campo Marzio, Rome
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GUERCINO St Augustine sdg Oil on canvas
S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome
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GUERCINO Martyrdom of St Catherine sdg 1653
Oil on canvas, 222,5 x 159 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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GUERCINO The Entombment of Christ sdg 1656
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
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GUERCINO The Flagellation of Christ dg 1657
Oil on canvas 250 x 185 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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GUERCINO St Francis with an Angel Playing Violin sdg Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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GUERCINO
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Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1591-1666
best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. Guercino is Italian for squinter, a nickname that was given to him because he was cross-eyed. He is especially noted for his many superb drawings. Guercino was born at Cento, a village between Bologna and Ferrara. By the age of 17 he was associated with Benedetto Gennari, a painter of the Bolognese School. By 1615 he moved to Bologna, where his work earned the praise of an elder Ludovico Carracci. He painted two large canvases, Elijah Fed by Ravens and Samson Seized by Philistines, in what appears to be a stark naturalist Caravaggesque style (although it is unlikely he had been able to see any of the Roman Caravaggios first-hand). They were painted for Cardinal Serra, Papal Legate to Ferrara. The Arcadian Shepherds (Et in Arcadia ego) was painted in 1618 contemporary with The Flaying of Marsyas by Apollo in Palazzo Pitti. His first style, he often claimed, was influenced by a canvas of Carracci in Cento. Some of his later pieces approach rather to the manner of his great contemporary Guido Reni, and are painted with more lightness and clearness. Guercino was esteemed very highly in his lifetime. He was then recommended by Marchese Enzo Bentivoglio to the Bolognese Ludovisi Pope, Pope Gregory XV. His two years (1621-23) spent in Rome were very productive. From this stay date his frescoes of Aurora at the casino of the Villa Ludovisi and the ceiling in San Crisogono (1622) of San Chrysogonus in Glory; his portrait of Pope Gregory (now in the Getty Museum, and, what is considered his masterpiece, The Burial of Saint Petronilla or St. Petronilla Altarpiece, for the Vatican (now in the Museo Capitolini). The Franciscan order of Reggio in 1655 paid him 300 ducats for the altarpiece of Saint Luke Displaying a Painting of the Madonna and Child (now in Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City). The Corsini also paid him 300 ducats for the Flagellation of Christ painted in 1657.
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