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Il Guercino
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Il Guercino: Abraham Driving Out Hagar and Ishmael
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Il Guercino: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Denis Mahon, Studies in Seicento Art and Theory (1947, reprinted 1971), and Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque, trans. from Italian (1992), an exhibition catalog; Denis Mahon and Nicholas Turner, The Drawings of Guercino in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle (1989); Claudio Strinati and Rossella Vodret (eds.), Guercino and Emilian Classicist Painting: From the Collections of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1999).

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First paragraph modernization. Mar 08, 2024
Anniversary information added. Feb 04, 2024
Anniversary information added. Dec 18, 2023
Modified link of Web site: National Gallery of Art, Washington - Biography of Guercino. Jun 30, 2019
Add new Web site: National Gallery of Art, Washington - Biography of Guercino. Aug 14, 2014
Add new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Giovanni Barbieri. Feb 09, 2012
Add new Web site: Virtual Uffizi Gallery - Biography of Giovan Francesco Barbieri. Feb 09, 2012
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Guercino. Feb 09, 2012
Bibliography revised and updated. Jun 03, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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