Giovanni Francesco Barbieri - Rinaldo Restraining Armida from Wounding Herself with an Arrow, a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Cento, February 8, 1591 – Bologna, December 9, 1666), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. Guercino is Italian for 'squinter', a nickname that was given to him because he was cross-eyed. He is especially noted for his many superb drawings. He was remarkable for the extreme rapidity of his execution, he completed no fewer than 106 large altar-pieces for churches, and his other paintings amount to about 144. In 1626 he began his frescoes in the Duomo of Piacenza. Guercino continued to paint and teach up to the time of his death in 1666, amassing a notable fortune.
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