Guercino (and assistants) Palace with Formal Garden Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with Bathers Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Garden with Figures threshing Grain with Horses Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with Harvesters Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) River Landscape with Fishermen Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
"Guercino used his own mixed-media method of wall painting, combining a secco fresco with oil colour, which gave him greater flexibility than pure fresco, allowing him, for example, to make changes and revisions that could be more quickly and easily concealed. . . . Given their uniform format and the artist's habit of articulating space by receding planes parallel to the picture surface, the Casa Pannini frescoes are consistently vivid and fresh, and there is no apparent hesitation in the flow of ideas. Despite the vagaries of their condition, they continue to satisfy as subjects of extraordinary originality and poetic force."
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with Woman, Two Gentlemen and Dog Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with a Mausoleum Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera Rossa) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with Grazing Cattle Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera Rossa) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with Figures gathering Hemp Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera Rossa) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with Two Boats on a River Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera Rossa) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Guercino (and assistants) Landscape with Duck Hunters Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera Rossa) 1615-17 detached fresco Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
– quoted text from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonnĂ© by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)