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GUERCINO Et in Arcadia Ego oil painting


Et in Arcadia Ego
Painting ID::  30549
GUERCINO
Et in Arcadia Ego
mk68 Oil on canvas 32 1/4x25 1/4" Rome,National Gallery of Art of the Past 1618-1622 Italy

   
   
     

GUERCINO The Dying Cleopatra oil painting


The Dying Cleopatra
Painting ID::  30575
GUERCINO
The Dying Cleopatra
mk68 Oil on canvas Genoa c.1648 Italy

   
   
     

GUERCINO Recreation by our Gallery oil painting


Recreation by our Gallery
Painting ID::  32611
GUERCINO
Recreation by our Gallery
mk79

   
   
     

GUERCINO The Return of the Prodigal Son oil painting


The Return of the Prodigal Son
Painting ID::  33583
GUERCINO
The Return of the Prodigal Son
mk86 1619 Oil on canvas 106.5x143.5cm Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum

   
   
     

GUERCINO The return of the prodigal son oil painting


The return of the prodigal son
Painting ID::  39620
GUERCINO
The return of the prodigal son
mk150 c.1619 Canvas 107x143.5cm

   
   
     

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     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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