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The Civica Pinacoteca il Guercino is the main cultural container in the City of Cento, which was closed for more than a decade due to the earthquake that struck the Emilia region in 2012.
It houses the greatest concentration in the world of masterpieces by our illustrious fellow citizen Giovanni Francesco Barbieri known as "il Guercino" and his workshop. This peculiarity offers visitors the opportunity to perceive in one place the stylistic evolution not only of the master, but also of his pupils and collaborators. A museum founded in 1839 to house, precisely, a first nucleus of Guercino's canvases recovered after Napoleonic requisitions, with its headquarters in the Palazzo del Monte di Pietà designed in 1794 by the Bolognese architect Giovanni Callegari.
