Guercino
Videos
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his
Self portrait, c. 1635
Guercino St Luke Displaying a Painting of the Virgin WGA10948
The dramatic confrontation with mortality depicted in Guercino's Et in Arcadia ego (c. 1618–1622) marks the first known usage of this Latin motto (inscribed on the plinth beneath the skull).
This contemporary portrait (1623) by Ottavio Leoni highlights the lifelong squint (a form of strabismus) which prompted the name 'Guercino'.
Duchy of Ferrara
Videos
The Duchy of Ferrara was a state in what is now northern Italy. It consisted of about 1,100 km2 south of the lower Po River, stretching to the valley of the lower Reno River, including the city of Fer
Guercino
…Guercino Self portrait, c. 1635 Born Giovanni Francesco Barbieri February 8, 1591 Cento, Duchy of Ferrara Died December 22, 1666 (aged 75) Bologna, Papal States Known for Painting, drawing Movement Baroque Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (8 February 1591 – 22…
Ferrara, walled and moated, ca 1600.
Portrait of a Woman by Bartolomeo Veneto, traditionally assumed to be Lucrezia Borgia
Torquato Tasso in the St. Ann's hospital of Ferrara, by Eugène Delacroix
Altarpiece, by the artist Michele di Luca dei Coltellini, was once in the now ruined church of Sant'Andrea in Ferrara The Walters Art Museum.