Guercino

Details

Instance of

human

Born

8 February 1591

Died

22 December 1666

Place of birth

Cento

Place of death

Bologna

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Giovanni, Francesco, Giovanni Francesco

Family name

Barbieri

Sibling

Lucia Barbieri

Movement

Baroque

Genre

portrait, religious painting

Field of work

painting

Occupation

painter, draftsperson, designer, visual artist

Citizenship

Papal States

artist files at

Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library

depicted by

Self-portrait with a Palette

described by source

Het Gulden Cabinet, BEIC Digital Library, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3

has works in the collection

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Finnish National Gallery, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum

languages spoken, written or signed

Italian

name in native language

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri

notable work

Landscape with bathing women, Et in Arcadia ego, Ecce Homo, The Burial of Saint Petronilla, Saint Gregory the Great with Jesuit Saints, Samson Captured by the Philistines, Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Aurora, Cleansing of the Temple, Cleopatra killing herself, Drawings by Il Guercino, God the Father and Angel

place of burial

Santissimo Salvatore

pseudonym

Guercino, Il Guercino, Guerchin

student

Domenico Maria Canuti

student of

Benedetto Gennari

topic has template

Template:Guercino

topic's main category

Category:Guercino

work location

Geographical region of Italy

Connected on Wikidata

Authority files