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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Diana 1646 oil on canvas Fondazione Marini Clarelli Santi, Perugia |
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| Guercino (or Guercino and workshop) Mucius Scaevola thrusting his Hand into the Flames ca. 1646-48 oil on canvas Sforza Cesarini Collection, Rome |
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| Guercino (or workshop copy) Mucius Scaevola thrusting his Hand into the Flames ca. 1646-48 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mucius Scaevola thrusting his Hand into the Flames ca. 1646-48 drawing (figure study) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Mucius Scaevola thrusting his Hand into the Flames ca. 1646-48 drawing (head study) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Margaret of Cortona 1646-48 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
"[Carlo Cesare] Malvasia dated the altarpiece [St Margaret of Cortona] to 1648, saying that it had been commissioned by Alessandro Martinelli of Cesena. The patron's remittance of 650 lire (162 scudi, 2 lire) was entered in the account book on 17 June 1648. Two years before, on 23 November 1646, Martinelli had paid Guercino an advance of 33 ½ scudi for the canvas, stretcher and ultramarine. A separate charge for materials was unusual, since such costs were normally comprised within the painter's overall fee. A vertical strip of intense blue sky appears in the left-hand third of the canvas."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Margaret of Cortona 1646-48 drawing (compositional study) Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Margaret of Cortona 1646-48 drawing (figure study - Putto) Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Peter 1646-48 oil on canvas Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St John the Baptist in the Desert 1647 oil on canvas (trial version) private collection, Reggio Emilia |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St John the Baptist in the Desert 1647 oil on canvas (finished version) private collection, Brescia |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Venus discovering the Dead Adonis (lost painting) 1647 oil on canvas formerly Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
"Malvasia reported that this destroyed work was executed in 1647 for Cardinal Mazarin, whose down payment of 50 ducats (62 ½ scudi) against a total cost of 250 ducats, was made on 28 July 1646; the balance of 200 ducats (248 scudi) followed on 29 May 1647. The painting was made as a pendant to the Cephalus and Procris of 1644, also formerly in Dresden and also destroyed during the Second World War, which the Queen Consort of France had given her minister soon after its delivery."
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| anonymous printmaker after Guercino Venus discovering the Dead Adonis 18th century etching private collection |
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| Pietro Bonato after Guercino Venus discovering the Dead Adonis 1807 engraving British Museum |
Рquoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonn̩ by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)