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Antoon van Dyck - Christ of the coin
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Antoon van Dyck - Anton Giulio Brignole - Salt on horseback
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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - Dying Cleopatra
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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - Eternal Father with a little angel
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Bernardo Strozzi, detto il Cappuccino - The Cook
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Guido Reni - San Sebastian
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Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Vecchio - Madonna and Child between Saints John the Baptist and Magdalene
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Carlo Antonio Tavella - Lake landscape
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Lorenzo De Ferrari - The living room of the Virtues of the Patries
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Domenico Piola - Allegory of Autumn
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Domenico Piola - The chariot of the sun with the seasons
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, detto il Grechetto - Nativity
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Gerard David - Madonna della Pappa
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Jan Wildens - January - Ice skaters
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Leon Cogniet - Maria Brignole-Sale De Ferrari, Duchess of Galliera with her son Filippo
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Pellegro Piola - Holy Family known as the butterfly
Antoon van Dyck - Christ of the coin
Antoon van Dyck - Anton Giulio Brignole - Salt on horseback
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - Dying Cleopatra
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, detto Guercino - Eternal Father with a little angel
Bernardo Strozzi, detto il Cappuccino - The Cook
Guido Reni - San Sebastian
Jacopo Negretti, detto Palma il Vecchio - Madonna and Child between Saints John the Baptist and Magdalene
Carlo Antonio Tavella - Lake landscape
Lorenzo De Ferrari - The living room of the Virtues of the Patries
Domenico Piola - Allegory of Autumn
Domenico Piola - The chariot of the sun with the seasons
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, detto il Grechetto - Nativity
Gerard David - Madonna della Pappa
Jan Wildens - January - Ice skaters
Leon Cogniet - Maria Brignole-Sale De Ferrari, Duchess of Galliera with her son Filippo
Pellegro Piola - Holy Family known as the butterfly

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Description

The painting, dated to 1620, is a work of the artist's early maturity, whose formation was influenced above all by the chromatic lesson of Titian, which constitutes the real premise to his painting of touch, with large liquid and luminous spots of color, and from the encounter with the art of the Carraccis, especially Ludovico. The relationship with the Bolognese painters, in particular, was essential for Guercino because it allowed him to broaden his horizons and to get in touch with the most up-to-date pictorial culture of the time, without however forgetting that genuine naturalistic vein that is the basis of his inspiration. . The painting is a precious example of the artist's style, characterized by a warm chromatic range and a strong "stained" chiaroscuro; very tender is the figure of the little angel, seen next to the majesty of the Eternal Father. The small canvas was commissioned from Guercino by Cristoforo Locatelli and was to be placed on the cymatium of the altarpiece depicting the dressing of Saint William of Aquitaine in the church of San Gregorio in Bologna. According to the Bolognese historian Carlo Cesare Malvasia, the client, struck by the extraordinary beauty of the painting, decided to keep it for himself, placing a copy in its place, which remained on site until 1962. The painting was part of a small group of works by great value of Palazzo Rosso that the Duchess of Galliera brought with her to the Parisian residence and therefore did not re-enter the donation of 1874, but became property of the Municipality of Genoa only after the death of the noblewoman by virtue of her bequest.

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