| Early works of the artist Guercino in NY |
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The Italian Cultural Institute of New York 686 Park Ave New York, NY 10065 (212) 879-4242 Tuesday, February 3 – Monday, March 2, 2009  the etchings of Italian painter and engraver Antonio Tempesta. The pictures representing episodes of agricultural life set in the Po valley, are totally attributed to his artistic sensibility. Some of them, for example, figured the cultivation and processing of hemp. It was a practice adopted only by the richest landowners and then almost completely abandoned more or less a century ago.The exhibition is also an opportunity for the American spectator to learn more about peasant life back at those times through these extraordinary realistic representations. Some of Guercino's canvases too, will be on view to document his training at the Carracci Academy in Bologna and, to a lesser extent, his sojourn with the Scarsellini in Ferrara. The exhibition will welcome the visitors with the fresco representing the Virgin of Ghiara. The work is supposed to be the first made by young Guercino. The display will continue with the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, dated around 1614-15, owned by Cassa di Risparmio of Cento. The recently discovered Rinaldo Corradino rides a mule, from the Pinacoteca Civica of Cento, will also be exposed. Some other works let the visitor foreshadow the greatness of the artist's mature years. Among them, the Madonna with the sparrow, from the Pinacoteca of Bologna, the Sibyl from Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Cento, the Madonna offering a budding rose to the Child from Foundation Cassa di Risparmio of Bologna. 
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