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Giovanni Guerra
(1544 - 1618)
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Martine Beck-Coppola
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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About the artwork
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Periods:
16th century
renaissance
17th century
XVIth century
XVIIth century
Techniques:
pen (drawing)
brown ink
wash drawing
Dimensions:
132 x 95
Inventory number:
1243DR
Detail:
Recueil de dessins : 1078DR à 1258DR et 3874DR à 3876DR- Guerra Giovanni Folio166recto : Astra
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Giovanni Guerra
Also known as:
Giovanni Guerra da Modena
Born:
1544
Dead:
1618
Country:
Italie
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Giovanni Guerra
(1544–1618) was an Italian draughtsman and painter from Modena who worked in Rome, where he probably arrived in 1562, though he was not documented until 1583, when he frescoed three friezes of allegorical figures in the Palazzetto Cenci, a modest project for a patron who was not very prestigious. For Cardinal Montalto he dedicated an elaborate composition of the Mystic Terrestrial Paradise (
paradiso terrestre mistico
), which he had engraved with verses composed for the occasion…
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