Giovanni Francesco Barbieri “GUERCINO”at the Waddesden

This genius
So bright of eye
His wisdom it did so defy
With paint his art created much
Depicting silks and flesh to touch
Reality ermine and stone
Wood and paper
He stood alone
Miraculously his eye to art
Such detail able to impart
Italian Baroque a specialist
His sibyls prophetesses they
Worked the oracles so to say
In 1591 Born in Cento He
a brilliant draughtsman
Lyrically
His imagination
How it ran
An Allegorically impassioned man
Religious themes
An artistic dreams
Yes Visually perpetually
Rhythmically remarkably, astute .