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Mary Magdalene
circa 1624-1625
Medium Oil on canvas
Current location Blanton Museum of Art
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GUERCINO
Personification of Astrology
Date circa 1650-1655
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 80.6 cm x 65.4 cm
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GUERCINO
Astrologia
1650-1653
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GUERCINO
Portrait de lartiste tenant une palette
1635
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 77 x 62 cm (30.3 x 24.4 in)
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GUERCINO
St John the Baptist
ca. 1645(1645)
Medium Oil on canvas
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GUERCINO
Samson and Delilah
oil on canvas. Access number 316.
Date 1654(1654)
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GUERCINO
An allegory
Date 17th century
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 49 x 96.5 cm (19.3 x 38 in)
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GUERCINO
Persian Sibyl
Date 1647(1647)
Medium Oil on canvas
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GUERCINO
An allegory
17th century
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 49 x 96.5 cm (19.3 x 38 in)
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GUERCINO
Burial of St Petronilla
1623
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 720 cm x 423 cm
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GUERCINO
St Augustine
first half of 17th century
Medium oil on canvas
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GUERCINO
St Gregory the Great with Sts Ignatius and Francis Xavier
circa 1626(1626)
Medium oil on canvas
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GUERCINO
Portrait of Paul Gregory XV
between 1622(1622) and 1623(1623)
Medium oil on canvas
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GUERCINO
An allegory
17th century
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 49 X 96.5 cm
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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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