Guercino (1591-1666) L’estasi di San Francesco (The Ecstasy of St. Francis) c.1620–1621 Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
L’estasi di San Francesco (c.1620-1621)
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Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (1624)
Guercino (1591-1666) Riposo nella fuga in Egitto (Rest on the Flight into Egypt) 1624 Oil on canvas, diameter 68.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called il Guercino) created Rest on the Flight to Egypt as a…
Cristo risorto appare alla madre (1629)
Guercino (1591-1666) Cristo risorto appare alla madre (The Resurrected Christ Appears to the Virgin) 1629 Oil on canvas, 260 x 179.5 cm Civica Pinacoteca Il Guercino, Cento Wrapped in a metallic-colored drapery, beautiful and solemn in his gait, with the flag…
Sansone catturato dai filistei (1619)
Guercino (1591-1666) Sansone catturato dai filistei (Samson Captured by the Philistines) 1619 Oil on canvas, 191.1 x 236.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York According to the Bible, Samson, whose strength came from his hair, was shorn by his duplicitous…
Giuseppe e la moglie di Putifar (1649)
Guercino (1591-1666) Giuseppe e la moglie di Putifar (Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife) 1649 Oil on canvas, 123.2 x 158 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A nude woman with pale pink skin reclines under cream-white sheets in a bed as…
Amnon e Tamar (1649-1650)
Guercino (1591-1666) Amnon e Tamar (Amnon and Tamar) 1649–1650 Oil on canvas, 123 x 158.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from the thighs up, a light-skinned man and woman gesture dramatically, partially covered only by colorful lengths of…
Incredulità di san Tommaso (1621)
Guercino (1591-1666) Incredulità di san Tommaso (The Incredulity of Saint Thomas) 1621 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 142.5 cm National Gallery, London The New Testament recounts how, after his crucifixion, Christ rose from the dead and appeared to his apostles.…
San Pietro liberato da un angelo (c.1622)
Guercino (1591-1666) San Pietro liberato da un angelo (Saint Peter freed by an Angel) c.1622 Oil on canvas, 105 x 136 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A youthful looking angel with curly hair imperiously points out the path of freedom…
Susanna e i vecchioni (1617)
Guercino (1591-1666) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1617 Oil on canvas, 176 x 208 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Historian Denis Mahon has masterfully shown that this painting and two other famous works by Guercino –Lot and…
Poèmes Barbares (1896)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Poèmes Barbares (Savage Poems) 1896 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 48.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Gauguin’s model for this painting was likely Pau’ura a Tai, a 14-year-old girl whom the artist described as his “native wife”…