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The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: The Baroque: The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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GUERCINO (CENTO 1591-BOLOGNA 1666)

A recumbent male nude

c.1618-19

RCIN 991227

As a young man Guercino ran a life-drawing studio in the town of Cento, emulating the Carracci academy in Bologna, fifteen miles (25 km) to the south. The model drawn here posed often for Guercino and appears in several drawings and paintings of the period.
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