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Painted around 1619–20, Guercino’s Erminia and the Shepherd, now in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, belongs to the years in which the young artist was establishing a reputation beyond his native Cento. Its subject comes from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, but Guercino’s treatment is far from a straightforward illustration of the poem. The close groupingContinue reading “Guercino: Erminia and the Shepherd”