Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman Published to accompany a major

Published to accompany a major exhibition

Accompanying the sixth and most significant exhibition of the Thaw Collection at the Morgan

The rich illuminations are idiosyncratic in their content

a space large enough to include iconographic details such as the manger

lenses and the art of seeing and feeling

Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman Published to accompany a majorGuercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers a comprehensive exploration of the artists graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and to the highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were ends in themselves. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (15911666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural