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| James Anderson Guercino's Aurora Fresco, 1621 (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1859 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Aurora in her Chariot (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Aurora in her Chariot (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Courtauld Institute, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Aurora in her Chariot (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Aurora in her Chariot (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Aurora (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Aurora (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Aurora (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for Tithonus (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Oliviero Gatti after Guercino Study for Leg of Tithonus, and Putto supporting Swag (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 engraving, after Guercino drawing (from published manual, Principles of Drawing) British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Day 1621 lunette fresco Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome |
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| Giovanni Volpato after Guercino Day (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) ca. 1782 etching and engraving British Museum |
"On the lunettes of the short sides of the [Sala dell'Aurora] are representations of Day and Night. The figure of Day or Lucifer (whose name literally means the 'bringer of dawn') [above] . . . holds up a flaming torch in his left hand, flowers in his right. . . . Guercino represented [Night, below] resting her elbow on a book and falling asleep. Because she is the mother of sleep and death, two sleeping putti, as well as an owl, a bat and ruins are depicted."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Night 1621 lunette fresco Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome |
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| Francesco Pozzi after Guercino Night (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1779 engraving British Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Study for figure of Night (Sala dell'Aurora, Casino Ludovisi, Rome) 1621 preparatory drawing Royal Library, Windsor |
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)