Paolo Antonio Barbieri (1603–1649)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Paolo was the brother of Guercino.
• He was born at Cento, a village near Bologna.
• The subjects of his pictures are flowers, fruit, and game, but he particularly excelled in painting fish.
• Guercino mourned his premature death, which took place in Bologna in 1649.
• According to his diary, more than forty works belonged to him.
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