From 06.10 to 30.11 - 25\% discount - La Sybille De Samos - Italian school Late 18th century

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ACCORDING TO LE GUERCHIN - The Sybil of Samos - ITALIAN SCHOOL late 18th century
The Sybil of Samos
Remake of Guerchin's composition in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Frameless canvas
Height : 116 cm Width : 93 cm

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino or le Guerchin, born in Cento in 1591 and died in Bologna in 1666, was a Baroque painter and draftsman of the Ferrara School, active in Rome and Bologna.
Self-taught, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri perfected his drawing skills by studying the Carracci's paintings, either through works preserved in Cento, or through the intermediary of Bononi and Scarsellino, who produced altarpieces in the region.
In 1608, at the age of 17, he met Benedetto Gennari, painter of the Bologna School.
Moving to Bologna, he came into contact with the artistic milieu of the Carracci. Attracted by Louis Carracci's style, he developed his use of light. He studied Caravaggio in Venice and Rubens in Mantua.
In 1616 in Ferrara, he had his first contact with Venetian painting, which he was able to deepen during his stay in Venice (1618) with the study of the great Venetian masters of the 17th century.
The works of the first period (1615 -1620), and especially those after his Venetian sojourn (Susanna, in the Prado Museum, Saint William of Aquitaine, in the Bologna Pinacoteca), feature warm, intense color, light and shadow effects, and represent perhaps the best part of his oeuvre.
Pope Gregory XV, who was his patron in Bologna, called him to Rome in 1621. He painted, among others, the Mary Magdalene in the Vatican Pinacoteca, the Sepulchre of Saint Petronilla in the Galleria Capitolina, and the Aurora and Renommée in the Casino dela Villa Boncompagnii Ludovisi.
He returned to Cento in 1623 and remained there, working intensively, until 1642, when he moved to Bologna.
The influence of Guido Reni became increasingly clear, and with it, Le Guerchin turned to academic modes in composition, coloring, facture, and ultimately even in subjects and motifs. Caravaggio's influence on Guerchin's early style is slight. The transformation undergone by his painting is the clearest evidence of the crisis in artistic culture that set in around the 1630s, and which saw the triumph of so-called "Baroque classicism".
Extremely skilful in execution, he produced over 250 paintings. In his works, we admire the strength of his colors, his talent for imitating nature and his creation of optical illusions.
"A vigorous, monotonous color, tending to black and violet, an easy execution, full of fire and truth, are the main characteristics of his originality. He is one of those painters who do everything from life, copying their models as if they wanted to paint their own portraits, without thinking too much about the roles they are to play. He is one of those painters in whose works you recognize the actor much more than the character he portrays. His paintings have a very different physiognomy from those of Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Espagnolet, Valentin and Alexandre Veronese, although all these artists had the same goal as he did.
On Reni's death in 1642, he went to Bologna and replaced him in the eyes of an international society of art lovers.
He was buried in the Church of the Most Holy Savior in Bologna, then held by the Lateran monks who had welcomed him.
 

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