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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 — December 22, 1666), better known as Guercino, was born into a family of peasant farmers in Cento. Being cross-eyed, at an early age he acquired the nickname by which he is universally known, Guercino, meaning ‘squinter’. Mainly self-taught, at the age of 16, he worked as apprentice in the shop…