Morgan Library celebrates Guercino, great draftsman

The Morgan Library, New York’s marvelous and celebrated library and museum, is hosting through Feb. 2, 2020, the exhibition Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman with which the museum venue continues exhibitions centered on its collection.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, was one of the most significant artists of seventeenth-century Italy, a great draughtsman and “felicissimo coloritore,” as Ludovico Carracci called him.

The Morgan Library holds more than twenty-five of the artist’s works, which are on display for the exhibition; visitors also have the opportunity to view drawings from New York’s public and private collections.
The exhibition includes folios that trace Guercino’s entire artistic career: his Bolognese beginnings are evidenced by depictions of everyday life; two drawings, on the other hand, document his interest in academic practice. Also present are studies of altarpieces and of his mature masterpieces, highlighting modifications and rethinks made by the artist himself. Also, studies for etchings, landscapes and human figures. The Morgan Library is also exhibiting on this occasion a number of new acquisitions that have never before been made visible as a group to the public.

The exhibition is curated by John Marciari and was made possible through the support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust.

For info: www.themorgan.org

Image: Guercino, Vision of St. Philip Neri (1646-1647; pen and brown ink with brown watercolor; New York, The Morgan Library & Museum)

Morgan Library celebrates Guercino, great draftsman

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