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Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman The rich illuminations are idiosyncraticGuercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers a comprehensive exploration of the artists graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and to the highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were ends in themselves. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (15911666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural