San Pietro restauratore della Cristianità

Guercino tra arte e sogno politico

Abstract

The transition to a certain realistic-naturalist paradigm represents for the Carracci’s Academy a choice in line with the hegemonic doctrinal tendency in the Emilian context of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, suggested by the counter-reformist theories on the image proposed by Cardinal Paleotti. A political choice therefore that influenced many other artists of the time, such as Guercino who was never in the Carracci's workshop, but who drew great inspiration from their reform. Among the works of this author, the Chair of Saint Peter is worthy of note, an authentic manifesto of the Petrine primacy, an artistic dream in the vision of the world of the painter from Cento.