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Giovanni Guerra
(1544 - 1618)
Fama
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Le Mage
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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figure study
winged figure
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About the artwork
Title:
Fama
Periods:
17th century
renaissance
16th century
XVIth century
XVIIth century
Techniques:
wash drawing
brown ink
pen (drawing)
Dimensions:
132 x 95
Inventory number:
1162DR
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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