Aurora guercino and augustine tassili
Guercino had the help of a specialist collaborator, Agostino Tassi, for the architectural painting, which demanded great skill with perspective....
A 1662 painting of the Roman goddess Aurora by Guercino has been rediscovered — and reunited with its preparatory drawing.
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They are on public view in New York for the first time in hundreds of years, having been previously unknown to scholars. The works can be seen through February 15, 2020, at the new Manhattan location of Christopher Bishop Fine Art.
The painting, titled “Aurora,” by the eminent Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591–1666), also known as il Guercino, was previously untraced although it appears in the account books of Guercino.
The pairing of the painting with its preparatory red chalk drawing, “Allegory of Vigilance,” represents a rare opportunity to study the dynamics of Guercino’s late working method.
The goddess of dawn, Aurora, is portrayed in both works with a full-throated crowing rooster proclaiming the start of the day behind her as the light of the rising sun catches the glint of her spear and the folds of her dress.
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