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"description": "Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called il Guercino) created Rest on the Flight to Egypt as a tondo, a circular canvas rarely used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries except in the case of holy subjects. The round shape represents the circle, symbolic for the nature of God, believed to have no end and no beginning. The painting depicts Mary the Mother of God, the Infant Christ, St. Joseph, and a musical angel, serenading the Holy Family during their exhausting journey through Egypt. Guercino, \"the squint-eyed\", was born near Bologna and became an influential painter in Rome in the early seventeenth century, where he created important commissions. His style was an important mix of the strong use of tenebrism, introduced by Caravaggio, and artists of the classical baroque, such as Domenichino, Annibale Carracci, and Guido Reni. The composition is clearly composed with strongly modeled forms and a cool harmony of colors. The sleeping Infant Christ is lulled to sleep by the angel's violin and the ideal landscape with classical ruins adds to the calm serenity of this painting.",
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"citation": "Blythe, Joan. \u201cReading Milton Greenly.\u201d In Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton's England, edited by Ken Hiltner, p. 183, fig. 41. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2008.",
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"citation": "De Grazia, Diane. \"Guercino decoratore.\" in Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino, 1591\u20131966. Bologna: Nuova Alfa editoriale, 1991.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 58, fn. 79",
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"citation": "Brigstocke, Hugh. William Buchanan and the 19th Century Art Trade: 100 Letters to His Agents in London and Italy. Art Documents. London: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1982. pp. 491, 340, 401, 403, 416\u2013417.",
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"citation": "Buchanan, William. Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution. Vol. 2. London: Printed for R. Ackerman, 1824: 155.",
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"citation": "Catalogue des Objets d'Art et de Haute Curiosit\u00e9 Antiques, du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance Qui Composent les Collections de feu M. le Compte de Pourtal\u00e8s-Gorgier. Monday 6 February 1865. Rue Tronchet, No. 7, Paris, France. n. 64.",
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"citation": "Valentini, Anna. \u201cTra Estasi e Quotidiano: La Musica Nelle Opere Sacre del Guercino.\u201d Giornata di Studi Guerciniani (October 19, 1991).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 210, fn. 34",
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"citation": "Stone, David M. Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1991.",
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"citation": "Cavazzini, Patrizia. Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari: Cantiere di Agostino Tassi. Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1998.",
"page_number": "p. 154, no. 171",
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"citation": "Mahon, Sir Denis. Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art Trustees, 1992.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 221, fn. 13",
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"citation": "Duffin, Ross. RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography. No. 8. New York: Research Center for Music Iconography, 1991.",
"page_number": "Referenced: p. 9, no. 175",
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"citation": "Guercino, Denis Mahon, Ente bolognese manifestazioni artistiche, Palazzo dell\u2019Archiginnasio (Bologna, Italy), and Biennale d\u2019arte antica 1968). Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666) : Catalogo Critico Dei Disegni : Bologna, Palazzo dell\u2019Archiginnasio, 1 Settembre-18 Novembre 1968. 1. ed. Bologna: Alfa, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. XL, XLI, 128 no. 13, 130, 143, 228",
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"citation": "\u201cYear in Review.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 10 (December 1967): 302\u2013346.",
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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.",
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"citation": "Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. \u201cGuercino\u2019s Versions of the Rest on the Flight to Egypt and the Lancellotti Tondo.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 3 (March 1970): 93\u2013102.",
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