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CARRACCI, Annibale (1560-1609)
b. Bologna d. Rome. Annibale Carracci was the most talented member of an Italian family of painters. He was taught by his cousin Ludovico Carracci. While working in Bologna, he visited Parma and Venice, where studies of painters such as Titian, Correggio and Veronese stimulated his early naturalistic style, which contrasted with the complexities of the prevailing Mannerism. In 1595 he was called to Rome by Cardinal Farnese. The frescoed ceiling of the Gallery in the Palazzo Farnese (finished in 1600) demonstrates his monumental style derived, for the most part, from the study of Michelangelo, Raphael and the Antique. The decorative arrangement is set in architecture and composed of multiple figure compositions supported by herms. Along with Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci produced a revival of painting in Rome; his lively style was seminal to both Baroque and classicism directions in the 17th century. He also made important contributions to landscape painting as well as caricature.
Primary Reference Source:
A Visual Dictionary of Art,
Published by:
The New York Graphic Society
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