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Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
.

bale Carracci was born in Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino
Agostino Carracci

Agostino Carracci was an Italy Painting and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale Carracci and cousin of Lodovico Carracci....
, and his cousin Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci

Ludovico Carracci was an Italy, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna.Ludovico himself apprenticed under Prospero Fontana in Bologna and traveled to Florence, Parma, and Venice, before returning to his hometown....
 opened a painter's studio, called by some initially as the Academy of Desiderosi (Desirous of fame and learning) or subsequently of the Incamminati (progressives; literally "of those opening a new way").






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Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 - July 15, 1609) was an Italian Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
.

Early career

Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino
Agostino Carracci

Agostino Carracci was an Italy Painting and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale Carracci and cousin of Lodovico Carracci....
, and his cousin Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci

Ludovico Carracci was an Italy, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna.Ludovico himself apprenticed under Prospero Fontana in Bologna and traveled to Florence, Parma, and Venice, before returning to his hometown....
 opened a painter's studio, called by some initially as the Academy of Desiderosi (Desirous of fame and learning) or subsequently of the Incamminati (progressives; literally "of those opening a new way"). While the Carraccis laid emphasis on the typically Florentine
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
 linear draftsmanship, as exemplified by Raphael
Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
 and Andrea del Sarto
Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto was an Italy painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early-Mannerism. Though highly regarded by his contemporaries as an artist "senza errori" , he is overshadowed now by equally talented contemporaries like Raphael....
, their style also derived from Venetian
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
 painters an attention to the glimmering colors and mistier edge of objects. This eclecticism would define artists of the Baroque Emilian or Bolognese School
Bolognese School (painting)

The Bolognese School or the School of Bologna of painting flourished in Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting....
.

It is difficult to distinguish the individual contributions by each Carracci in many early works in Bologna. For example, the frescoes on the story of Jason for the Palazzo Fava in Bologna (c. 1583-84); the frescoes are signed by Carracci and state that they all contributed. In 1585, Annibale completed an altarpiece of the Baptism of Christ for the church of San Gregorio in Bologna. In 1587, he painted the Assumption for the church of San Rocco in Reggio Emilia. In 1587-88, Annibale is known to have had traveled to Parma and then Venice, where he met up with his brother Agostino. From 1589-92, the three Carracci complete the frescoes on the Founding of Rome for the Palazzo Magnani
Palazzo Magnani

Palazzo Magnani is a palace in Bologna, Italy, built by the noble family with the same name.Construction began in 1577 under architect Domenico Tibaldi; on his death in 1583 he was replaced by Floriano Ambrosini....
 in Bologna. By 1593, Annibale completed by an altarpiece, Virgin on the throne with St John and St Catherine, working alongside with Lucio Massari
Lucio Massari

Lucio Massari was an Italy painter of the School of Bologna. He can be described as painting during both Mannerist and early-Baroque periods....
. His Resurrection of Christ also dates from the year 1593. In 1592, he paints an Assumption for the Bonasoni chapel in San Francesco. During 1593-1594, all three Carracci work at frescoes in the Palazzo Sampieri in Bologna.

Frescoes in Palazzo Farnese

Based on the prolific and masterful frescoes by the Carracci in Bologna, Annibale was recommended by the Duke of Parma, Ranuccio I Farnese, to his brother, the Cardinal Odoardo Farnese, who wished to decorate the piano nobile of the cavernous Roman Palazzo Farnese. In November-December of 1595, Annibale and Agostino traveled to Rome to begin decorating the Camerino with stories of Hercules, appropriate since the room housed the famous Greco-Roman antique sculpture of the hypermuscular Farnese Hercules
Farnese Hercules

The Farnese Hercules is an ancient sculpture, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD by Glykon of an original of Lysippos or one of his circle, of the fourth century BC., made for the Baths of Caracalla in Rome , where it was recovered in 1546....
.

Annibale meanwhile developed hundreds of preparatory sketches for the major product, wherein he led a team painting frescoes on the ceiling of the grand salon with the secular quadri riportati of The Loves of the Gods
The Loves of the Gods (Carracci)

The Loves of the Gods is a massive fresco cycle completed by Annibale Carracci and his studio in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. The fresco series was greatly admired in its time, and was later felt to reflect a change in aesthetic in Rome from Mannerism to Baroque....
, or as the biographer Giovanni Bellori described it, Human Love governed by Celestial Love. Although the ceiling is riotously rich in illusionistic elements, the narratives are framed in the restrained classicism of High Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 decoration, drawing inspiration from, yet more immediate and intimate, than Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling
Sistine Chapel

Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. Its fame rests on its architecture, evocative of Solomon's Temple of the Old Testament and on its decoration which has been frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and...
 as well as Raphael
Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
's Vatican Logge and Villa Farnesina
Villa Farnesina

Villa Farnesina is an artistically and architecturally influential Renaissance villa in Via della Lungara, in the central district of Trastevere in Rome....
 frescoes. His work would later inspire the untrammelled stream of Baroque illusionism and energy that would emerge in the grand frescoes of Cortona
Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berrettini was an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque. He is best known for painting fresco ceilings, a pursuit in which he had ample competition in the Rome of his day, but he was equally adept and masterful with architectural design....
, Lanfranco
Giovanni Lanfranco

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italy painter of the Baroque period....
, and in later decades Andrea Pozzo
Andrea Pozzo

Andrea Pozzo was an Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque Painting and architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician. He was best known for his grandiose frescoes using illusionistic technique called quadratura, in which architecture and fancy are intermixed....
 and Gaulli
Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Giovanni Battista Gaulli , also known as Baciccio, Il Baciccio or Baciccia was a painter of the Italian culture Baroque verging onto that of the Rococo....
.

Throughout 17th and 18th centuries, the Farnese Ceiling was considered the unrivaled masterpiece of fresco painting for its age. They were not only seen as a pattern book of heroic figure design, but also as a model of technical procedure; Annibale’s hundreds of preparatory drawings for the ceiling became a fundamental step in composing any ambitious history painting.

Contrast with Caravaggio

The 17th century critic Giovanni Bellori, in his survey titled Idea, praised Carracci as the paragon of Italian painters, who had fostered a “renaissance” of the great tradition of Raphael
Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
 and Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
. On the other hand, while admitting Caravaggio's talents as a painter, Bellori deplored his over-naturalistic style, if not his turbulent morals and persona. He thus viewed the Caravaggisti styles with the same gloomy dismay. Painters were urged to depict the Platonic ideal of beauty, not Roman street-walkers. Yet Carracci and Caravaggio patrons and pupils did not all fall into irreconcilable camps. Contemporary patrons, such as Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani
Vincenzo Giustiniani

Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani was an aristocratic Italian banker, art collector and intellectual of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known today largely for the Giustiniani art collection, assembled at Palazzo Giustiniani, by the Pantheon, Rome, and at the family palazzo at Bassano by Vincenzo and his brother Benedetto, and for his p...
, found both applied showed excellence in maniera and modeling.

In our century, observers have warmed to the rebel myth of Caravaggio, and often ignore the profound influence on art that Carracci had. Caravaggio almost never worked in fresco, regarded as the test of a great painter's mettle. On the other hand, Carracci's best works are in fresco. Thus the somber canvases of Caravaggio, with benighted backgrounds, are suited to the contemplative altars, and not to well lit walls or ceilings such as this one in the Farnese. Wittkower was surprised that a Farnese cardinal surrounded himself with frescoes of libidinous themes, indicative of a "considerable relaxation of counter-reformatory morality". This thematic choice suggests Carracci may have been more rebellious relative to the often-solemn religious passion of Caravaggio's canvases. Wittkower states Carracci's "frescoes convey the impression of a tremendous joie de vivre, a new blossoming of vitality and of an energy long repressed".

Today, unfortunately, most connoisseurs making the pilgrimage to the Cerasi Chapel
Cerasi Chapel

The Cerasi Chapel is one of five chapels located within the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. It contains important paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci, two of the founders of Baroque art, all dating from 1600 or 1601....
 in Santa Maria del Popolo
Santa Maria del Popolo

Santa Maria del Popolo is a notable Augustinian church located in Rome.It stands to the north side of the Piazza del Popolo, one of the most famous squares of the city, between the ancient Porta Flaminia and the Pincio park....
 would ignore Carracci’s Assumption of the Virgin
Assumption of the Virgin (Carracci)

The Assumption of the Virgin is the name of two paintings by the Italy Baroque painter Annibale Carracci, with the subject of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary....
 altarpiece (1600-1601) and focus on the stunning flanking Caravaggio works. It is instructive to compare the theologic
Assumption of Mary

The Roman Catholic Church teaches as Dogma that the Mary , "having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." This means that Mary was transported into Heaven with her body and soul united....
 and artistic differences between Carracci's Assumption and Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin
Death of the Virgin (Caravaggio)

The Death of the Virgin is a painting completed by the Italy Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It is a near contemporary with the Madonna and Child with St....
. Among early contemporaries, Carracci would have been an innovator. He re-enlivened the Michelangelo's visual fresco vocabulary, and posited a muscular and vivaciously brilliant pictorial landscape, which had been becoming progressively crippled into a Mannerist
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
 tangle. While Michelangelo could bend and contort the body into all the possible perspectives, Carracci in the Farnese frescoes had shown how it could dance. The "ceiling"-frontiers, the wide expanses of walls to be frescoed would, for the next decades, be thronged by the monumental brilliance of the Carracci followers, and not Caravaggio's followers.
Carracci Assumption of the Virgin Mary
In the following century, it was not the admirers of Caravaggio, who would have dismissed Carracci, but to a lesser extent than Bernini and Cortona, baroque art in general came under criticism from neoclassic critics such as Winckelmann
Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Johann Joachim Winckelmann a Germany art historian and archaeologist, was a pioneering Hellenism who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art....
 and even later from the prudish John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
. Carracci in part was spared opprobrium because he was seen as an emulator of the highly admired Raphael, and in the Farnese frescoes, attentive to the proper themes such as those of antique mythology.

Landscapes, genre art and drawings

On July 8, 1595, Annibale completed the painting of San Rocco distributing alms, now in Dresden Gemäldegalerie. Other significant late works painted by Carracci in Rome include Domine, Quo Vadis? (c1602), which reveals a striking economy in figure composition and a force and precision of gesture that influenced on Poussin
Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin was a French Painting in the Classicism style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color....
 and through him, the language of gesture in painting.

Carracci was remarkably eclectic in thematic, painting landcapes, genre scenes, and portraits, including a series of autoportraits across the ages. He was one of the first Italian painters to paint a canvases wherein landscape took priority over figures, such as his masterful The Flight into Egypt
The Flight into Egypt (Annibale Carracci)

The Flight into Egypt is a painting by the Italy Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from c. 1604, it is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj of Rome....
; this is a genre in which he was followed by Domenichino (his favorite pupil) and Lorraine.

Carracci's art also had a less formal side that comes out in his caricatures (he is generally credited with inventing the form) and in his early genre
Genre

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other Art#Art forms or utterance....
 paintings, which are remarkable for their lively observation and free handling (see ) and his painting of The Beaneater. He is described by biographers as inattentive to dress, obsessed with work: his self-portraits vary in his depiction.

Under a melancholic humor

It is not clear how much work Annibale completed after finishing the major gallery in the Palazzo Farnese. In 1606, Annibale signs a Madonna of the bowl. However, in a letter from April 1606, the cardinal Odoarde Farnese bemoans that a "heavy melancholic humor" prevented Annibale from painting for him. Throughout 1607, Annibale is unable to complete a commission for the Duke of Modena of a Nativity. There is a note from 1608, where in Annibale stipulates to a pupil that he will spend at least two hours a day in his studio.

There is little documentation from the man or time to explain why his brush was stilled. Speculation abounds.

In 1609, Annibale dies, and was buried, according to his wish, near Raphael in the Pantheon
Pantheon, Rome

The Pantheon is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt circa 126 AD during Hadrian's reign....
 of Rome. It is a measure of his achievement that artists as diverse as Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was a pre-eminent Baroque sculpture and architect of 17th Century Rome....
, Poussin, and Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality....
 praised his work. Many of his assistants or pupils in projects at the Palazzo Farnese and Herrera Chapel would become among the pre-eminent artists of the next decades, including Domenichino, Francesco Albani
Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italy Baroque Painting....
, Giovanni Lanfranco
Giovanni Lanfranco

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italy painter of the Baroque period....
, Domenico Viola, Guido Reni
Guido Reni

Guido Reni was a prominent Italy Painting of high-Baroque style....
, Sisto Badalocchio
Sisto Badalocchio

Sisto Badalocchio Rosa was an Italy Painting and engraver of the Bolognese School .Born in Parma, he worked first under Agostino Carracci in Bologna, then Annibale Carracci, in Rome....
, and others.

Chronology of works

  • Assumption of the Virgin
    Assumption of the Virgin (Carracci)

    The Assumption of the Virgin is the name of two paintings by the Italy Baroque painter Annibale Carracci, with the subject of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary....
     (c. 1590) - Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm, Museo del Prado
    Museo del Prado

    The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection....
  • The Baptism of Christ (1584) - Oil on canvas, San Gregorio, Bologna
    Bologna

    Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
  • The Beaneater (1580-1590) - Oil on canvas, 57 x 68 cm, Galleria Colonna, Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • Butcher's Shop
    Butcher's Shop (Annibale Carracci)

    The Butcher's Shop is a painting by the Italy Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from the 1580s , it is housed in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford....
     (1580s) - Oil on canvas, 185 x 266 cm, Christ Church Picture Gallery
    Christ Church Picture Gallery

    Christ Church Picture Gallery is a picture gallery at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 200 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings....
    , Oxford
    Oxford

    Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
  • Crucifixion (1583) - Oil on canvas, 305 x 210 cm, Santa Maria della Carità, Bologna
    Bologna

    Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
  • Descent From the Cross (1580-1600) St. Ann's, [[Manchester]]
  • Fishing (before 1595) - Oil on canvas, 136 x 253 cm, Musée du Louvre
  • Hunting (before 1595) - Oil on canvas, 136 x 253 cm, Musée du Louvre
  • The Laughing Youth (1583) - Oil on paper, Galleria Borghese
    Galleria Borghese

    The Borghese Gallery in Rome is an art gallery housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana, a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens....
    , Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • Madonna Enthroned with St Matthew (1588) - Oil on canvas, 384 x 255 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
    Dresden

    Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
  • The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (1585-1587) - Oil on canvas, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
    Naples

    Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
  • Venus, Adonis and Cupid (c. 1595) - Oil on canvas, 212 x 268 cm, Museo del Prado
    Museo del Prado

    The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection....
    , Madrid
    Madrid

    Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
  • River Landscape (c. 1599) - Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art

    The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W....
    , Washington D.C.
  • Venus and Adonis (c. 1595) - Oil on canvas, 217 x 246 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum
    Kunsthistorisches Museum

    The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstra?e, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world....
    , Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
  • Venus with a Satyr and Cupids (c. 1588) - Oil on canvas, 112 x142 cm, Uffizi
    Uffizi

    The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
    , Florence
    Florence

    Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
  • The Virgin Appears to the Saints Luke and Catherine (1592) - Oil on canvas, 401 x 226 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
  • Frescoes (1597-1605) in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • Assumption of the Virgin Mary
    Assumption of the Virgin (Carracci)

    The Assumption of the Virgin is the name of two paintings by the Italy Baroque painter Annibale Carracci, with the subject of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary....
     (1600-1601) - Oil on canvas, 245 x 155 cm, Santa Maria del Popolo
    Santa Maria del Popolo

    Santa Maria del Popolo is a notable Augustinian church located in Rome.It stands to the north side of the Piazza del Popolo, one of the most famous squares of the city, between the ancient Porta Flaminia and the Pincio park....
    , Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • Lamentation of Christ (1606) - Oil on canvas, 92,8 x 103,2 cm, National Gallery
    National Gallery, London

    The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  • The Flight into Egypt
    The Flight into Egypt (Annibale Carracci)

    The Flight into Egypt is a painting by the Italy Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from c. 1604, it is housed in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj of Rome....
     (1603) - Oil on canvas, 122 x 230 cm, Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
    Rome

    Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
  • The Choice of Heracles (c. 1596) - Oil on canvas, 167 x 273 cm, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
    Naples

    Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
  • Mocking of Christ (c. 1596) - Oil on canvas, 60 x 69,5 cm, Pinacoteca Nazionale
  • Pietà (1599-1600) - Oil on canvas, 156 x 149 cm, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
    Naples

    Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
  • Domine quo vadis?
    Domine quo vadis? (Annibale Carracci)

    Domine, quo vadis? is a painting by the Italy Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from c. 1602, it is housed in the National Gallery, London....
     (1601-1602) - Oil on panel, 77,4 x 56,3 cm, National Gallery
    National Gallery, London

    The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  • Rest on Flight into Egypt (c. 1600) - Oil on canvas, diameter 82,5 cm, Hermitage Museum
    Hermitage Museum

    The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art , and one of the oldest art gallery and museums of human history and culture in the world....
    , St. Petersburg
  • Self-Portrait in Profile (1590s) - Oil on canvas, Uffizi
    Uffizi

    The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
    , Florence
    Florence

    Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
  • Self-portrait (c. 1604) - Oil on wood, 42 x 30 cm, Hermitage Museum
    Hermitage Museum

    The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art , and one of the oldest art gallery and museums of human history and culture in the world....
    , St. Petersburg
  • The Martyrdom of St Stephen (1603-1604) - Oil on canvas, 51 x 68 cm, Louvre
    Louvre

    The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
    , Paris
  • Triptych (1604-1605) - Oil on copper and panel, 37 x 24 cm (central panel), 37 x 12 cm (each wing), Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
    Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica

    The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, or National Gallery of Ancient Art, is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, located on two sites: the Palazzo Barberini and the Palazzo Corsini....
    , Rome
    Rome

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  • Holy Women at the Tomb of Christ Oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum
    Hermitage Museum

    The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia is one of the largest museums in the world, with 3 million works of art , and one of the oldest art gallery and museums of human history and culture in the world....
    , St. Petersburg
  • Atlante Sanguine, Louvre
    Louvre

    The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
    , Paris
  • Drawings (exhibit, National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art

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