# Lunette painting [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUERCINO]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Tempera ## Commentary On the short sides of the Sala dell'Aurora are two lunettes which fill the space beneath the imaginary centre opening. Opposite to the personification of Day sits the personification of the Fourth Watch of the Night with Two Sleeping Children. It is possible that the meditative pose of the female figure was derived from <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/durer/2/13/4/079.html'\)" href="/html/d/durer/2/13/4/079.html">Dürer's Melencolia.</a> ## Related artworks - [A Cosmographer]() - [A Donor Presented to the Virgin]() - [Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael]() - [Allegory of Painting and Sculpture]() - [Apparition of Christ to the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Aurora]() - [Aurora]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling painting \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()