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BARBIERI, GIOVANNI See also:FRANCESCO (otherwise called GUERCINO, from his squinting), (1591–1666) , See also:Italian See also:historical painter, was See also:born at See also:Cento, a See also:village not far from See also:Bologna. His See also:artistic See also:powers were See also:developed very rapidly, and at the See also:age of seventeen he was associated with Benedetto Gennari (1550-161o), a well-known painter of the Bolognese school. The fame of the See also:young painter spread beyond his native village, and in 1615 he removed to Bologna, where his paintings were much admired. His first See also:style was formed after that of the See also:Caracci; but the strong colouring and shadows employed by See also:Caravaggio made a deep impression on his mind, and for a considerable See also:period his productions showed evident traces of that painter's See also:influence. Some of his latest pieces approach rather to the manner of his See also:great contemporary Guido, and are painted with more lightness and clearness. Guercino was esteemed very highly in his lifetime, not only by the nobles and princes of See also:Italy, but by his See also:brother artists, who placed him in the first See also:rank of painters. He was remarkable for the extreme rapidity of his See also:execution; he completed no fewer than Io6 large See also:altar-pieces for churches, and his other paintings amount to about 144. His most famous piece is thought to be .the St Petronilla, which was painted at See also:Rome for See also:Gregory XV. and is now in the Capitol. In 1626 he began his frescoes in the Duomo at See also:Piacenza. Guercino continued to paint and See also:teach up to the See also:time of his See also:death in 1666. He had amassed a handsome See also:fortune by his labours. His See also:life, by J.

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Calvi, appeared at Bologna in 18o8. His brother, See also:PAOLO See also:ANTONIO BARBIERI (1603-1649), was a celebrated painter of still life and animals. He See also:chose for his subjects fruits, See also:flowers, See also:insects and animals, which he painted after nature with a lively tint of See also:colour, great tenderness of See also:pencil, and a strong See also:character of truth and life.

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