This artist painted a soldier holding one of the arms of the contorting title figure as another man brandishes a scissors in his painting of Samson Captured by the Philistines. This artist's Return of the Prodigal Son unusually depicts the son removing his ragged shirt to take fine clothes from his foppish brother. To celebrate the accession of Gregory XV, Cardinal Ludovisi commissioned this artist to create a fresco to which Agostino Tassi added quadratura architecture. In that illusionistic ceiling fresco painted in response to Guido Reni's version, Tithonus looks on as a chariot embarks across the sky. One of his paintings depicts a woman being both welcomed to (*) heaven and lowered into a grave after her martyrdom. Two shepherds stare at a skull in a painting 
This artist painted a soldier holding one of the arms of the contorting title figure as another man brandishes a scissors in his painting of Samson Captured by the Philistines. This artist's Return of the Prodigal Son unusually depicts the son removing his ragged shirt to take fine clothes from his foppish brother. To celebrate the accession of Gregory XV, Cardinal Ludovisi commissioned this artist to create a fresco to which Agostino Tassi added quadratura architecture. In that illusionistic ceiling fresco painted in response to Guido Reni's version, Tithonus looks on as a chariot embarks across the sky. One of his paintings depicts a woman being both welcomed to (*) heaven and lowered into a grave after her martyrdom. Two shepherds stare at a skull in a painting by this artist of Aurora that inspired Poussin's painting of the same name. For 10 points, name this Baroque painter of The Burial of Saint Petronilla and Et in Arcadia ego, whose nickname refers to his crossed eyes.
This artist painted a soldier holding one of the arms of the contorting title figure as another man brandishes a scissors in his painting of Samson Captured by the Philistines.
Guercino [or Giovanni Francesco Barbieri]