Word: cento
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...15th and 16th century frescoes. Consequently, Guercino, like a number of his contemporaries -- Guido Reni and the Carraccis, for instance, or even Caravaggio -- was slighted. The first Guercino exhibition was not held until three centuries after his death, in his ! birthplace in central Italy, the small Emilian city of Cento, in 1967. His rediscovery was due almost entirely to the love and labors of one English art historian, the late Denis Mahon, who wrote the basic texts on him, defined the canon of his work and was probably the last connoisseur to "own" single- handedly a major European artist...
...when his patron, the Bolognese Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, became Pope in 1621 and summoned Guercino to the Vatican. There he painted one enormous canvas, the Burial and Reception into Heaven of Saint Petronilla, for an altar in Saint Peter's, but the Pope died in 1623, and back to Cento the painter went. Later he moved to nearby Bologna. Guercino had a steady stream of commissions from local churches in Emilia, but from Rome's point of view he was overshadowed by other Bolognese virtuosi who worked in the metropolis: the Carraccis and especially Reni...