Editing Guercino (section)

==Rome==
[[File:Guercino - The Woman taken in Adultery - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb| Guercino – ''The Woman taken in Adultery'', [[Dulwich Picture Gallery]] (1621)]]
[[File:Guercino Flagellazione.jpg|thumbnail| Guercino – ''[[Flagellation of Christ]]'' (1657)]]
Guercino was recommended by Marchese [[House of Bentivoglio|Enzo Bentivoglio]] to the newly elected Bolognese [[Ludovisi (family)|Ludovisi]] Pope, [[Pope Gregory XV]] in 1621.<ref>[[Lawrence Gowing]], ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.2 (Facts on File, 2005): 291.</ref> The years he spent in Rome, 1621–23, were very productive. From this period are his frescoes ''Aurora'' at the casino of the [[Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi|Villa Ludovisi]], the ceiling in [[San Crisogono]] (1622) of ''San Chrysogonus in Glory'', the portrait of Pope Gregory XV (now in the [[Getty Museum]]), and the ''[[St. Petronilla Altarpiece]]'' for [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in the Vatican (now in the [[Capitoline Museums]]).