Whilton
A Dictionary of British Place-Names
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Whilton Northants.
Woltone 1086 (
DB). ‘Farmstead with a water-wheel, or on a round hill’. OE
hwēol +
tūn.
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NMAA to Sell Guercino; Getty Museum Paying $1.45 Million for Rare Portrait
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/2/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...Francesco Barbieri, the artist known as Guercino (the Squinter), to the Getty Museum...nearly double the record price for a Guercino, which was set in 1985 at auction...year. "We're overjoyed to have the Guercino, since it is one of the greatest baroque...
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Crossed Eyes and Contradictions: Il Guercino
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/15/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...taught cross-eyed master known as il Guercino. His nickname means "the squinter...these linked, competing shows. While Guercino lived, the mighty paid him homage...of England, summoned him to London (Guercino told him no); Christina, Queen of...
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A draftsman's accuracy is revealed in Guercino's brilliant, passionate drawings
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/27/1991; ; 700+ words
; GUERCINO, MASTER DRAFTSMAN Works from North American...plain to anyone who sees half a dozen Guercino drawings that the 17th-century Bolognese...Harvard's Sackler Museum to reveal that Guercino drew as brilliantly as any artist ever...
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Guercino the genius
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...historians of art who taught them knew of Guercino, or, more properly, Giovanni Francesco...for the umpteenth time, explain that Guercino pretty enough in Italian - was the callous...expression of his genius. It was in 1591 that Guercino was born in Cento, a small town in the...
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Caravaggio, Guercino, Mattia Preti: Das halbfigurige Historienbild und die Sammler des Seicento.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Sandra Gianfreda. Caravaggio, Guercino, Mattia Preti: Das halbfigurige Historienbild...book's title names only Caravaggio, Guercino, and Mattia Preti, many other artists...scrutinizing the work of Caravaggio, Guercino, and Preti in relation to art theory...
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A squint eye for delightful detail ; Visual arts ++ GUERCINO: MIND TO PAPER ++ Courtauld Institute LONDON
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/6/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...fashion in the art schools. But would Guercino, the 17th-century master of the Southern...Well, on the evidence of this show, Guercino didn't lack for a sense of humour...records of the places and the people Guercino would have seen about the streets. There...
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Et in Arcadia Ego (1618-22) ; GREAT WORKS ++ Guercino ++ Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...seems to insist that it might not be. Guercino's Et in Arcadia Ego is famous for being...where they haven't heard of death. Guercino's picture shows the moment of discovery...by Poussin that use the same subject) Guercino puts the shepherds and the tomb firmly...
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Guercino's `Saint Gregory the Great with Saints Ignatius Loyola and Fra ncis Xavier'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/18/1999; 250 words
; Guercino's `Saint Gregory the Great with Saints Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier' being hung at the National Gallery in London yesterday. It is one of 58 17th-century Italian works from the collection of Sir Denis Mahon which are going on show around the UK Jayne West
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A VERY SKETCHY SHOW ; The sane man who has seen drawings by Leonardo or Guercino can only wonder at the National Gallery's decision to promote the efoorts of Leon Kossoff
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the past 12 months has had the opportunity to see, close-to, drawings by Michelangelo, Leonardo, Holbein, Leighton and Guercino, it must seem that, to Kossoff 's work, the definition drawing has been misapplied. There is currently much debate about...
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Hidden past of Little Pig Robinson; At the Dulwich Picture Gallery - this week voted best small attraction in the Visit Lonndon Awards - the illustrations of children's author Beatrix Potter compete with 17th-century baroque artist Guercino.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 12/2/2005; 700+ words
; Byline: BRIAN SEWELL WHO NOW remembers blue bags? These essentials of Monday morning and the laundrymaid have, with the screws of waxed blue paper that in my childhood contained the salt in crisp packets, passed into the mists of history. What are paduasoy and bag puddings? Why are lettuces
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Guercino
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Guercino The Italian painter Guercino (1591-1666) was probably the first Italian artist to create...stylistic sense of the term. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino because of his squint, was born early in February 1591 in Cento...
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Mahon, Sir Denis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...rehabilitation of such once-scorned artists as the Carracci , Guercino , and Reni . He is also a leading Poussin scholar. His publications...pioneering work, and catalogues of Carracci drawings (1956) and Guercino paintings (1968) and drawings (1969) for major exhibitions...
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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri see Guercino .
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Piacenza
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...family. Noteworthy buildings include the Lombard-Gothic Palazzo del Comune (1281); the cathedral (1122-1233), with frescoes by Guercino; and the churches of San Savino (12th cent.) and Madonna di Campagna (16th cent.).
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baroque
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...treatment of unidealized, ordinary people. The illusionistic effects of deep space interested many painters, including Il Guercino and Andrea Pozzo. Other baroque painters opened up interior spaces by representing long files of rooms, often with extended...
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