{"id":7245,"date":"2016-11-03T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/sito\/il-guercino-a-piacenza\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T10:08:25","slug":"il-guercino-a-piacenza","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/il-guercino-a-piacenza\/","title":{"rendered":"Guercino"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Giovanni Francesco Barbieri best known as IL GUERCINO<\/strong>\u00a0(Cento 1591- Bologna 1666)<\/h3>\n<p>is unanimously considered among the greatest italian painters of the XVIIth century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1626 he has been called in Piacenza by Bishop Linati<\/strong>\u00a0in order to complete the decoration of the great\u00a0<strong>Cathedral Dome<\/strong>; in fact Morazzone, in charge by the Chapter since 1625, suddenly died just\u00a0after having painted only 2 of the 8 Dome Gores; Linati follows the steps of his predecessor Bishop Rangoni, who had called, at the beginning of \u00a0\u2019600,\u00a0<strong>Camillo Procaccini and Ludovico Carracci<\/strong>\u00a0to decorate the Cathedral Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1626 and 1627\u00a0<strong>Guercino\u00a0painted the\u00a0frescoes\u00a0representing\u00a0the remaining\u00a0<em>Prophets\u00a0<\/em>in the Dome gores<em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Christ\u2019s life Stories in\u00a0<\/em>the lunettes<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>and the Sybils<\/em>, <\/strong>\u00a0leaving here one of his greatest works<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guercino left in town his touch in the\u00a0Capuchin Chruch, the<strong>\u00a0Madonna di Campagna\u00a0Sanctuary<\/strong>, where, in \u2019500 the painter\u00a0<strong>Pordenone\u00a0<\/strong>had<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>worked; he might have impressed Guercino a lot.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferrara master influenced also other artists that where working in the area of Piacenza; this can be noticed in the frescoes of the Modena painter\u00a0<strong>Gavasetti<\/strong>\u00a0who was working in those years (1624-28) in the absis\u2019 vault of the\u00a0<strong>Basilica of Sant\u2019Antonino.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first decades of \u2019600 have been very prolific years before the plague of 1630 ruined all plans; Mochi achieved the extraordinary <strong>equestrian monuments of\u00a0Ranuccio e Alessandro Farnese<\/strong>\u00a0in tne Main Square, today called <em>Piazza Cavalli.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the celebrations of the year of G<em>uercino in Piacenza<\/em>, \u00a0we propose a <strong>guided itinerary following the traces of the great artists that will influence ore were influenced by the presence of Guercino in Piacenza<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Info ITINERARY ABOUT GUERCINO IN PIACENZA:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:eventi@atlanteguide.it\">eventi@atlanteguide.it<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; +39 334 1553061<\/p>\n<p>In Piacenza from 4th March to 4th June 2017: Exhibition dedicated to Guercino in Palazzo Farnese and possibility to climb to the Cathedral Dome base.<\/p>\n<p>We will publish more informations as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni Francesco Barbieri best known as IL GUERCINO\u00a0(Cento 1591- Bologna 1666) is unanimously considered among the greatest italian painters of the XVIIth century. In 1626 he has been called in Piacenza by Bishop Linati\u00a0in order to complete the decoration of the great\u00a0Cathedral Dome; in fact Morazzone, in charge by the Chapter since 1625, suddenly died just\u00a0after having painted only 2<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7166,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7245\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlanteguide.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}