Sopranos actor Federico Castelluccio now owns a painting that has been authenticated as a work by Italian baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri.
The painter, more commonly known as Guercino, a nickname he earned for his pronounced squint, was a master of chiaroscuro, or the treatment of light and shade, a talent which inspired comparisons to Caravaggio.
Castelluccio made his debut in the second season of the hit television show as Furio Giunta, an Italian mobster who works for Tony Soprano and has a taste for flashy shirts. But in real life, the actor is also a painter himself and an expert in baroque European art.