Copy of Guercino's Aurora, Casino di Villa Ludovisi, 1621-23. Guercino's Aurora is a tempera fresco and represents the antithesis of the one painted by Guido Reni in the Casino Rospigliosi depicting Aurora, a young Goddess, advancing on a chariot pulled by two horses, while night flees before her and a genius in flight, crowns Aurora with flowers while another, on the chariot, scatters flowers all around; on one side, on the bed, is the old husband Tithonus; above, three young women represent three stars, one of which pours dew from an urn. Eos' chariot passes swiftly over the architectures that are seen with illusionistic perspective open towards the sky. The colors are very pure and culminate in the piebald of the horses' coats that ferociously pull the chariot. The Baroque imprint is combined with the influence of Venetian painting. The artist wants to represent not simply the rise of any new day, but allegorically the dawn of a new era of glory for the Ludovisi family.