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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Annunciation to the Shepherds 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Annunciation to the Shepherds (Studies for Angel) 1627 drawing private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Adoration of the Shepherds 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Adoration of the Shepherds (Compositional Study) 1627 drawing Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Adoration of the Shepherds (Figure Study for Shepherd) 1627 drawing Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Adoration of the Shepherds (Head Study for the Virgin) 1627 drawing Kunsthaus, Zürich |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Adoration of the Shepherds (Study of Hands for the Virgin) 1627 drawing Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Adoration of the Shepherds (Drapery Study for the Virgin) 1627 drawing Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Adoration of the Shepherds (Study for the Christ Child) 1627 drawing private collection |
"From May to July the following year [1627], Guercino carried out the second phase of the decoration. This comprised the Scenes from the Nativity of Christ, the four pairs of Sibyls, and the frieze of putti. The multi-figured Nativity scenes, the most complex (though not necessarily the most successful) of the three main sections of Guercino's Piacenza cycle, took the longest time to complete, each requiring between eleven and sixteen giornate."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Presentation in the Temple 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Presentation in the Temple (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Presentation in the Temple (Compositional Study) 1627 drawing Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Presentation in the Temple (Figure Study - Priest and Christ Child) 1627 drawing private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Presentation in the Temple (Drapery Study - Priest) 1627 drawing Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Presentation in the Temple (Figure Study - Christ Child) 1627 drawing private collection |
– quoted text from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)