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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mysteries of the Rosary (surround for relief image by another hand) ca. 1615 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Giorgio di Corporeno, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mysteries of the Rosary (detail) Putti with Rose Garland ca. 1615 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Giorgio di Corporeno, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mysteries of the Rosary (detail) The Annunciation (located in lower left corner of the full work) ca. 1615 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Giorgio di Corporeno, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mysteries of the Rosary (study for The Annunciation) ca. 1615 drawing (recto) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mysteries of the Rosary (study for The Annunciation) ca. 1615 drawing (verso) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
"In the central niche within a gilt frame is a large polychromed relief of the Madonna of the Rosary, surrounded by Guercino's 15 upright scenes from the Mysteries of the Rosary. In the gap between the top of the niche and the Stories at the upper centre, Guercino painted two flying putti, between them holding a rose garland, which they are about to place on the Virgin's head. Guercino's scenes are strongly influenced by Scarsellino, while the delicate figure types are indebted to Parmigianino and Ludovico Carracci. Yet his distinctive approach to invention is evident in the lucid arrangement and variety in the diminutive compositions, the clarity of the lighting and the dance-like movements of the little figures."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Virgin feeding the Infant Christ (Madonna della Pappa) ca. 1615 oil on copper Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Giovanni Battista Pasqualini after Guercino Virgin feeding the Infant Christ (Madonna della Pappa) 1621 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Four Evangelists - St Matthew ca. 1615 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Four Evangelists - St Mark ca. 1615 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Four Evangelists - St Mark ca. 1615 drawing (compositional study) Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Four Evangelists - St Luke ca. 1615 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Four Evangelists - St John the Evangelist ca. 1615 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
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| G. Markendorf after Guercino Four Evangelists 1852 lithograph British Museum |
"According to [art historian Carlo Cesare] Malvasia [1616-1693], the St. Matthew was exhibited publicly in Bologna, on the initiative of Padre [Antonio] Mirandola, shortly before Ascension Day (i.e. 18 May) 1615. The series of the Four Evangelists was next recorded in the estate inventory of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro d'Este (1568-1624); the year after his death the collection was transferred to Modena, where the series reappears in Este inventories of 1672, 1698 and 1744. In 1745 the four pictures were sold by Francesco III d'Este (1698-1780) to Augustus III, Elector of Saxony (1696-1763), and they have been in Dresden since the following year."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) The Nativity ca. 1615 oil on canvas Palazzo Corsini, Rome |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Virgin and Child with St Francis of Assisi St Anthony Abbot and St Bobo of Provence ca. 1615 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Sebastiano di Renazzo |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Virgin and Child with St Pancras of Rome and Monastic Saint ca. 1615 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Sebastiano di Renazzo |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Virgin and Child with St Pancras of Rome and a Monastic Saint ca. 1615 drawing (figure study for Virgin and Child) Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)