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Description: | Guercino is a nickname, meaning squint-eyed, but the artist's full name is Giovanni Francesco Barbieri. Guercino's interest lay in subject matter which seizes on a fleeting but significant instant in a religious story, which he then treats - at least in his early work - in drammatically lit close up. The urgency of forms caught in movement is also a strong characteristic of Guercino's drawings. In this image Christ's lifeless body is supported by the Madonna at the base of the cross. | Subjects: | religion (Pietà) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Guercino (Italian painter and draftsman, 1591-1666) Æ Attributed to manner of Previously attributed to Guercino (Italian painter and draftsman, 1591-1666) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8393... | Go to resource |
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