This subseries contains material Salerno amassed while researching the monograph
I dipinti del Guercino, which he published in conjunction with Denis Mahon in 1988. The files include a number of photographs of works attributed
to Guercino, annotated indices from the 1988 book, photocopies of articles and essays on the artist, Mahon's 1981
Apollo articles on Guercino, drafts of a letter regarding
La Sibilla Frigia, correspondence and invoices related to the conservation of the
Santa Barbara, extensive hand-written and typed notes, many on works included in the catalogue raisonné. Notes on particular paintings
are written and annotated by both Mahon and Salerno.
The subseries also includes correspondence, scattered throughout the research files. Correspondents include: Prisco Bagni,
Creighton Gilbert, Laurence B. Kanter, D. Stephen Pepper, Karin Rådström and Ksenija Rozman. A significant portion of the
correspondence is actually addressed to, or written by, Mahon, rather than Salerno. Additional materials include, preliminary
lists of works to be included in the catalog and their corresponding catalog numbers, notes from the Vatican archives and
a summary description of
Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Finally, the subseries includes a number of photographic permissions, invoices and receipts related to the illustrations reproduced
in the 1988 volume. The folders of permissions are interspersed with additional correspondence which is not related to the
Guercino monograph, but appears to have been filed in this location because it was received by Salerno contemporaneously.
Some of the letters request attribution advice while others grant permission for reproductions of works attributed to Salvator
Rosa and other artists. Typically, only a single letter is present from the correspondents listed below. Correspondents in
this section include: Andrzej S. Ciechanowiecki of the Heim Gallery, John Hand of the National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Richard
Herner of P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., David Kolch of the Art Institute of Chicago, T.D. Llewellyn of Sotheby's, Ann Tzeutschler
Lurie of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Lynn Federle Orr of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Wolfgang Prohaska of the
Kunsthistoriches Museum Wien, Pierre Rosenberg of the Musée du Louvre and William H. Wilson of the John and Mable Ringling
Museum of Art.
Images
Box
7-8
Black-and-white photographs
Box
Folder
56
12
Color photograph and transparencies
Box
Folder
8
2
Indices, bibliography, reviews and other materials
Correspondence, notes and images
Box
Folder
8
3-10
Papers
Box
Folder
56
13
Color photographs and transparencies
Box
Folder
8
11
Prints
Papers and images
Box
Folder
8
12-14
Papers
Box
Folder
56
14
Color photographs, negative and transparencies
Box
Folder
9
1
Atlas, Museo Bardini
Includes correspondence and remarks from Mahon, Joyce Plesters of the National Gallery (Great Britain) and Raffaella Rossi
Manaresi of the Centro "Cesare Gnudi" per la conservazione delle sculture all'aperto.
The Toilet of Venus, private collection, California
Includes 1986 correspondence with the painting's owner.
Box
Folder
9
2-3
Papers
Box
Folder
56
15
Transparency
Transparency is actually a version of
La Maddalena che contempla i chiodi della Passione.
