Editing Guercino (section)

==Return to Bologna==
Following the death of Gregory XV in 1623, Guercino returned to his hometown of Cento.  In 1626, he began his [[fresco]]es in [[Piacenza Cathedral]]. The details of his career after 1629 are well documented in the account book, the ''Libro dei Conti di Casa Barbieri'', that Guercino and his brother [[Paolo Antonio Barbieri]], a notable painter of [[Still life#Seventeenth century|still life]]s, kept updated, and which has been preserved.<ref>Griswold 1991, p. 35</ref> Between 1618 and 1631, [[Giovanni Battista Pasqualini]] produced 67 engravings that document the early production of Guercino, which is not included in the ''Libro dei Conti''.<ref name="Gozzi2006">{{cite web |last1=Gozzi |first1=Fausto |title=Sacro e Profano nelle Incisioni da Guercino |url=http://docplayer.it/19262888-Sacro-e-profano-nelle-incisioni-da-guercino-cento-1590-1666.html |publisher=Culturalia |access-date=12 February 2019 |language=it |date=2006}}</ref> In 1642, following the death of his commercial rival [[Guido Reni]], Guercino moved his busy workshop to Bologna, where he was now able to take over Reni's role as the city's leading painter of sacred subjects. In 1655, the [[Franciscan Order]] of Reggio{{Clarify|date=March 2025|reason=Presumably Reggio Emillia?}} paid him 300 [[ducat]]s for the altarpiece of ''Saint Luke Displaying a Painting of the Madonna and Child'' (now in [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art]], Kansas City).<ref name="smarth">{{cite web | title =Guercino's Saint Luke Displaying a Painting of the Virgin | publisher =[[Smarthistory]] at [[Khan Academy]] | url =http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/guercino.html | access-date =March 15, 2013 | archive-date =November 2, 2014 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20141102030315/http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/guercino.html | url-status =dead }}</ref> The [[Corsini family]] also paid him 300 ducats for the ''Flagellation of Christ'' painted in 1657.
[[File:San salvatore, bo, int., tomba del guercino.JPG|thumb|Tomb of Guercino, [[Santissimo Salvatore, Bologna]]]]