1591-1666
Italian
Giovanni Francesco Guercino Galleries Related Paintings of Giovanni Francesco Guercino :. | Angels Weeping Over the Dead Christ | The Raising of Lazarus | Virgin and Child with the Patron Saints of Modena | Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery | Jacob Receiving Joseph's Coat | Related Artists: Giacinto Diano painted Portrait of architect Luigi Vanvitelli in CARACCIOLO, Giovanni Battista Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1578-1635
Italian painter. He was one of the greatest Caravaggesque painters and the founder of Neapolitan Caravaggism. His Liberation of St Peter (c. 1615; Naples, Pio Monte della Misericordia; ) and Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1622; Naples, Certosa di S Martino; see fig. 2 below) are masterpieces of 17th-century Neapolitan art, and attain a powerful and tragic grandeur. Joseph Nitschner Description painter
Date of birth 1805(1805)
Location of birth/death Eggenburg Vienna