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"did_you_know": "Two miniscule female forms appear at the bottom edge of the sheet and may pertain to an earlier idea for the composition or to one of many other compositions Guercino conceived for the commission.",
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"description": "Giovanni Francesco Barbiere, called Guercino, was a prolific draftsman who used drawing not only to prepare for his many painting commissions but also to record and explore his ideas for future use. This preparatory drawing, made early in his career, reflects Guercino's nonlinear preparatory process and his simultaneous work on different compositions. It relates in format to the painted decoration at the Casa Pannini in his native town of Cento, but it features Venus instead of Diana as in the finished fresco. Guercino's combination of rapid and sure pen lines with ink wash, applied with expert variegation to create deep shadows and bright highlights, is a paradigm of the artist's exuberant high Baroque style.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 38",
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"citation": "Kennedy, Ruth Wedgwood. Italian Drawing, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art. [Northampton, MA.]: [Press-work by A. Wilson], 1941.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 42",
"url": null
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"citation": "Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1947.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 114, n. 57; Reproduced: p. 115",
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"citation": "Worcester Art Museum. Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe During the XVIth-XVIIth Centuries. April 11 to May 16, 1948.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 45",
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"citation": "Mongan, Agnes. One Hundred Master Drawings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 72; Reproduced: p. 73",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Detroit Institute of Arts. Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums: Detroit Institute of Arts, June 1-September 15, 1950. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 21",
"url": null
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"citation": "Marangoni, Matteo. Guercino. Milano: Aldo Martello, 1959.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 11, n. 8; Reproduced: n. 8",
"url": null
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"citation": "Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. \"Old and Modern Drawings: A Drawing by Guercino.\" The Art Quarterly 26 (Summer 1963): 217-233.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 217-233; Reproduced: p. 219, n. 1",
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},
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"citation": "Cummings, Frederick J. Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 101; Reproduced: p. 100",
"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "Roli, Renato. I fregi centesi del Guercino. Bologna: R. P\u00e0tron, 1968.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 77, note 89",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 115",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n139"
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"citation": "Mahon, Denis. Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666): catalogo critico dei disegni: Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, 1 settembre-18 novembre 1968. Bologna: Alfa, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 48",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Bottari, Stefano, Renato Roli, and Anna Ottani Cavina. Guercino: Disegni. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1972.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 4, n. 21",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 136",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n156"
},
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"citation": "Schloder, John E. Baroque Imagery. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1984.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 51-52; Reproduced: p. 52, n. 23",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bagni, Prisco. Guercino a Cento: Le decorazioni di Casa Pannini. Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1984.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 141-150, 165, n. 119; Reproduced: p. 151",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Salerno, Luigi. I dipinti del Guercino. Rome: Ugo Bozzi, 1988.",
"page_number": "pp. 102-103",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Mahon, Denis, and Nicholas Turner. The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. Cambridge: Cambrdige University Press, 1989.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 1",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Stone, David Marshall. \"Theory and Practice in Seicento Art: The Example of Guercino.\" PhD diss., Harvard University, 1989.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 233-236; Reproduced: fig. 40",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Stone, David M. Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 4; Reproduced: p. 5",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Mahon, Denis. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino, 1591-1666: Disegni: Bologna, Museo civico archeologico, Cento, Pinacoteca civica e Chiesa del Rosario, 6 settembre-10 novembre 1991. Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1991.",
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"url": null
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
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"url": null
},
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"citation": "Turner, Nicholas, Carol Plazzotta. Drawings by Guercino from British Collections, with an Appendix Describing the Drawings by Guercino, His School and His Followers in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press, 1991.",
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"citation": "Stone, David M. Guercino: Catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence: Cantini, 1991.",
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"url": null
},
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
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},
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"citation": "Turner, Nicholas. The Paintings of Guercino: A Revised and Expanded Catalogue Raisonne\u0301. Roma: Ugo Bozzi Editore s.r.l., 2017.",
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}
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