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Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian. ca. 1618. Not on view. A new addition to Guercino’s youthful corpus, this powerful, boldly rendered study after the male nude model is an impressive early example of his practice of life drawing, and can be precisely associated with a small but surprisingly homogeneous group of life drawings ...
Artist: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna) Date: ca. 1656 Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and light brown wash; framing outlines in pen and brown ink
In his youth, Guercino made many drawings from nude models, often using charcoal, the traditional medium for such studies. Artists usually made such drawings from the nude, known as académies ,...
Giovan (Giovanni) Francesco Barbieri (Cento, 8 de febrero de 1591 — Bolonia, 9 de diciembre de 1666), más conocido con el apodo Guercino o Il Guercino, fue un pintor barroco italiano. Representa el periodo de transición del clasicismo romano-boloñés al barroco pleno.
- Italian
- Cento, Italy
Apart from the inspiration of seeing similar drawings in Bologna (both Pietro Faccini and the Carracci made such studies), the chalk or charcoal dipped in gum solution perhaps appealed to Guercino because the intense, bold effect it created corresponded to the forthright study that underlay the drawings' conception, something different from the ...
Artwork Details. Overview. Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: Fireworks in a Piazza. Artist: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna) Date: ca. 1618–23. Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint (?)
In this moving contemplation on the passage of time and transitory nature of life, Guercino painted his only known still life: a decaying skull sits atop the Book of Life; beside it, the sands of time slip through an hourglass; to the left, a vase of French roses, traditional symbols of vita brevis; on the right, a vase of wallflowers, marigolds...
