Burial of Saint Petronilla
Author:
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Cento 1591 - Bologna 1666)
Type:
Painting
Year:
1621 - 1623
Material and technique:
oil on canvas
Size:
cm 720 x 423
Origin:
Commissioned for an altar in Saint Peter's Basilica; transferred to Palazzo del Quirinale, requisitioned by Napoleon's troops and taken to Paris, Louvre; brought back to Italy by Antonio Canova and placed in the Capitoline Museums in 1818.
Inventory:
Inv. PC 140
Collection:
The hall
At the end of the sixteenth century, Rome was the main centre of illustrative culture and the meeting place of artists of different origins. In the early 1590s, Caravaggio arrived in Rome from Lombardy where he remained until 1606 and deeply influenced the meaning of pictorial research.
