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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Crucifixion with the Virgin, Magdalene and St John the Evangelist 1644-45 oil on canvas Cappella Barbieri Chiesa del Rosario, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Crucifixion with the Virgin, Magdalene and St John the Evangelist (detail) 1644-45 oil on canvas Cappella Barbieri Chiesa del Rosario, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Crucifixion 1644-45 drawing (figure studies - Christ)Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Crucifixion 1644-45 drawing (figure study - St John) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Crucifixion with the Virgin, Magdalene and St John the Evangelist (installation view) 1644-45 oil on canvas Cappella Barbieri Chiesa del Rosario, Cento |
"In Cento, Guercino had belonged to the congregation of the church of the SS. Rosario. His scheme to erect a family chapel (the Cappella Barbieri or Barbieri Chapel) in the church seems to have gained impetus with his move to Bologna in the autumn of 1642. In the annual breakdown of his earning for the year, dated 3 December 1642, the cost of what must have been initial building work for the chapel amounted to 2,599 lire. . . . The chapel was finished in 1645, when the first mass was celebrated there."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) God the Father 1644-45 oil on canvas (vaulted ceiling painting) Cappella Barbieri Chiesa del Rosario, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St John the Baptist 1644-45 oil on canvas (vaulted ceiling painting) Cappella Barbieri Chiesa del Rosario, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francis 1644-45 oil on canvas (vaulted ceiling painting) Cappella Barbieri Chiesa del Rosario, Cento |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francis praying before a Crucifix ca. 1644-45 oil on canvas private collection on loan to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
"[The St Francis in Houston] is in immaculate condition, the smooth handling and bright palette typical of [Guercino's] work of the mid-1640s. . . . The similarity in treatment of the figure in the present canvas to that on the ceiling of the Barbieri Chapel in the Santissimo Rosario, Cento is self-evident."
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Absalom and Tamar ca. 1644-45 oil on canvas National Trust, Tatton Park, Cheshire |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St John the Baptist 1645 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Diana 1645 oil on canvas formerly Gemäldegalerie, Dresden |
Guercino's Diana of 1645, formerly in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, is listed as "location unknown." If it had been documented as destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II, like so many other Old Master paintings in Dresden, the sources would presumably state the fact. Perhaps it was looted in that period, and so perhaps still exists, but a specific account of its fate has not been located.
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francis praying before the Crucifix 1645 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna |
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| Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) St Francis praying before the Crucifix 1645 drawing (compositional study) Royal Library, Windsor |
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| Heinrich Bislinger after Guercino St Francis praying before the Crucifix ca. 1770 etching after Guercino drawing Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
"This was the first altarpiece Guercino painted for a Bolognese church following his move to the city from Cento. Malvasia mentioned it as one of the commissions the artist undertook in 1645. Payment of 180 ducats (225 scudi) from the church fathers of S. Giovanni in Monte was registered in the account book on 14 April 1645."
– quoted texts from The Paintings of Guercino: a revised and expanded catalogue raisonné by Nicholas Turner (Rome: Ugo Bozzi Editore, 2017)