GUERCINO
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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GUERCINO Ermina Finds the Wounded Tancred jg oil painting


Ermina Finds the Wounded Tancred jg
1618-19 Oil on canvas, 145,5 x 187,5 cm Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
Painting ID::  7234 		GUERCINO
Ermina Finds the Wounded Tancred jg
1618-19 Oil on canvas, 145,5 x 187,5 cm Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome
   
   
     
GUERCINO The Martyrdom of St Peter jg oil painting


The Martyrdom of St Peter jg
1618-19 Oil on canvas, 320 x 193 cm Galleria Estense, Modena
Painting ID::  7235 		GUERCINO
The Martyrdom of St Peter jg
1618-19 Oil on canvas, 320 x 193 cm Galleria Estense, Modena
   
   
     
GUERCINO Return of the Prodigal Son klgh oil painting


Return of the Prodigal Son klgh
1619 Oil on canvas, 106,5 x 143,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Painting ID::  7236 		GUERCINO
Return of the Prodigal Son klgh
1619 Oil on canvas, 106,5 x 143,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
   
   
     
GUERCINO Raising of Lazarus hjf oil painting


Raising of Lazarus hjf
c. 1619 Oil on canvas, 199 x 233 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID::  7237 		GUERCINO
Raising of Lazarus hjf
c. 1619 Oil on canvas, 199 x 233 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     
GUERCINO The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin hf oil painting


The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin hf
1629 Oil on canvas, 260 x 179 cm Pinacoteca Comunale, Cento
Painting ID::  7240 		GUERCINO
The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin hf
1629 Oil on canvas, 260 x 179 cm Pinacoteca Comunale, Cento
   
   
     
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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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