Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called GuercinoItalia, 1591–1666Sainte Cécile
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Sul dipinto
Santa Cecilia è un dipinto a olio su tela (122x100 cm) di Giovanni Francesco Barbieri detto Guercino realizzato nel 1642 e conservato nel Louvre di Parigi. L'opera appartiene al Dipartimento dei dipinti del Louvre ed è attualmente in deposito presso il Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique, a Parigi.
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- INV 89
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- Museo del Louvre
- Immagine: Museo del Louvre — © 1990 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Photographe inconnu
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Tutta la vita1621
Moves to Rome, to the court of Gregory XV
Marchese Enzo Bentivoglio recommended Guercino to the newly elected Pope Gregory XV, the Bolognese Alessandro Ludovisi. His Roman years (1621–1623) were the most productive of his life; the portrait of the pope (now in the Getty Museum) dates from them.
1623
Returns to his native Cento
After the death of Pope Gregory XV, Guercino left Rome and returned to his hometown.
1623
Ottavio Leoni draws his portrait
The portrait emphasises the permanent squint that gave the artist his nickname. Guercino's right eye was apparently 'lazy' and he presumably had monocular vision — which did not stop him conveying depth remarkably well.
1629
The Barbieri household account book begins
From this year Guercino's affairs are recorded in the Libro dei Conti di Casa Barbieri, kept up with his brother Paolo Antonio, a notable still-life painter; the book survives. He worked with extreme rapidity — no fewer than 106 large altarpieces and some 144 other paintings, besides a great many drawings.
1642
Moves to Bologna after Guido Reni's death
After the death of his commercial rival Guido Reni, Guercino moved his busy workshop to Bologna and took over Reni's role as the city's leading painter of sacred subjects. He painted and taught to the end of his life, amassed a notable fortune and, never having married, left it to his nephews and pupils Benedetto Gennari II and Cesare Gennari.
22 dicembre 1666
Died
