Best Guercino
Aurora is a ceiling fresco painted by Guercino in 1621 for the Casino Ludovisi in Rome. It depicts the Roman goddess of dawn driving a chariot across the sky, accompanied by figures and animals associated with daybreak. The composition uses painted architecture and dramatic foreshortening to open th...
Guercino's Saint Petronilla Altarpiece is a monumental Baroque canvas depicting the burial and heavenly reception of Saint Petronilla. Commissioned for Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome around 1621, it divides the narrative between mourners lowering the saint's body below and Christ welcoming her into...
Altarpiece by the Bolognese Baroque painter Guercino depicting the Entombment of Christ, held in the Vatican Pinacoteca and characteristic of his dramatic use of light and shadow.
