Word: emilian
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...ground altarpieces and 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...