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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
". . . beneath the lunettes, a continuous frieze of putti, similarly alternating between two types: 'real life' putti in colour; and putti in feigned relief in monochrome."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (Figure Studies) 1627 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (Figure Study) 1627 drawing British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Frieze of Putti with Swags of Fruit and Flowers (Figure Study) 1627 drawing British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Grisaille Frieze of Putti and Female Figures (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Grisaille Frieze of Putti and Female Figures (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Grisaille Frieze of Putti and Female Figures (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Grisaille Frieze of Putti and Female Figures (detail) 1627 fresco Duomo di Piacenza |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Grisaille Frieze of Putti and Female Figures (Compositional Study) 1627 drawing Albertina, Vienna |
"The decoration [of the entire interior surface of the dome in Piacenza Cathedral] is his only large-scale fresco cycle in an important ecclesiastical building and the only one on public view. The immense height and distinctive architectural framework of the cathedral's Gothic cupola, built some three centuries before, and the religious subject-matter of Guercino's fresco cycle strike a different note from his notably smaller, more modest ceiling frescoes painted shortly before in the reception rooms of Roman palaces."
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)