Saturday, March 20, 2021

Guercino in Cento - 1615-1617 (Casa Pannini - III)

Guercino (and assistants)
Landscape with a Shepherd and his Flock
and Hemp-Drying Poles in the Distance

Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate)
1615-17
detached fresco
Pinacoteca Civica, Cento

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)
Garden of a Villa with Servants laying the Table for an Outdoor Meal
Decorations of the Casa Pannini in Cento (Camera dell'Estate)
1615-17
detached fresco
Pinacoteca Civica, Cento

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)
Barn of Casa Colonica with Woman hanging Laundry
and Hemp-Drying Structure

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)