Guercino - Finestre sull'Arte

Guercino in Turin: an itinerary among the works

In the strutting, superb Turin, in the sunny splendor of the Savoy square next to the Royal Palace, within the cozy halls of Palazzo Chiablese, stands a luminous and splendid exhibition, perhaps unexpected but for that reason surprising and magnifice...
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Turin, at the Royal Museums the major exhibition on Guercino with international loans

Entitled Guercino . The Painter's Trade the exhibition that the Royal Museums of Turin are dedicating to Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri; Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666) and hosting at the Sale Chiablese from March 23 to July 28, 2024. The exhibit...
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Turin, Guercino exhibition also features the large Madonna of the Rosary altarpiece. Photos of the transport

A new addition to the exhibition dedicated to Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666), entitled Guercino. The Painter's Craft scheduled in the Sale Chiablese of Turin's Royal Museums from March 23 to July 28, 2024, produced by CoopCulture with Villagg...
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A happy time for Guercino, time for exhibitions and rediscoveries

The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna offers citizens and international culture an exhibition on Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666). A review toward an anthology of works that place the master at the center of seventeenth-century European painting ...
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From Antonio Canova to Samorì, under the Carracci frescoes: Genus Bononiae shows its treasures

It will be a focus on its collections in the new exhibition of Genus Bononiae, which at its headquarters in Palazzo Fava, in the center of Bologna, is organizing from August 3 to September 12 the exhibition Ancient and Modern. From the Collections of...
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From Guercino to medieval sculptural apparatus: the treasures of Piacenza Cathedral

Inevitable to remain at least for a few minutes with one's head upward to admire, once one has walked down the central nave of Piacenza Cathedral, the great octagonal dome wonderfully frescoed by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Cento, 1591...
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Brescia's exhibition on women in art history, closed due to pandemic, returns in 2021

The exhibition on women in art from Titian to Boldini, which opened last January but was halted prematurely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been rescheduled for 2021. Women in Art. From Titian to Boldini (this is the title of the exhibition), curat...
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Seductive, strong and suave: the appearance of Christ to his mother by Guercino

It bears the date of October 17, 1786, Johann Wolfang Goethe's visit to Cento, appropriately and extensively noted in his Italienische Reise. The great man of letters, having arrived in this industrious strip of the Po Valley on a mild autumn eve...
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