"Neither clean nor well-dressed, with his collar askew, his hat jammed on any old way and his unkempt beard, Annibale Carracci seemed to be like an ancient philosopher, absent-minded and alone," wrote an early biographer. A tailor's son, Carracci considered himself a craftsman, not a courtier, but the Romans buried him in the Pantheon beside Raphael.
Along with his older brother Agostino and his cousin Lodovico, Annibale founded the Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the Progressives) in Bologna, which focused on naturalism and rejected Mannerism. There they revived the practice of working from life, focusing on the craft of art rather than the elegant life of court painters. The Carracci were tireless observers. Scholars credit Annibale with teaching caricature and helping to revive the process of creating extensive preparatory drawings for paintings.
Between 1597 and 1601, Carracci worked on the gallery ceiling of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, his most important legacy. Conceiving the ceiling as open to the sky, he painted its mythological love scenes as framed easel pictures within an illusionistic framework. After receiving a paltry five hundred lire for this extensive decoration, he suffered a breakdown. A prolific draftsman, Carracci derived his heroic figure style from antique sculpture and Michelangelo and Raphael's art, but he added a richness and buoyancy from his copious studies from life. He originated the "ideal landscape," with figures, buildings, and nature in perfect balance, a nature tamed and ennobled by man's presence.
J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
This is part 6 of a 6-part series on the works of Annibale Carracci.
Note: The remainder of works in this series are not dated but are all before 1609:
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| Portrait of a bearded Man oil on paper, laid down on panel (size not given, auction house) |
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| Portrait of a Man, bust-length, in a ruff oil on canvas 43.2 x 35.9 cm (auction house) |
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| Portrait of a young Girl oil on paper, laid down on canvas 37.5 x 27.5 cm (auction house) |
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| Portrait of a Young Man in profile red chalk on paper 32.3 x 26.3 cm (auction house) |
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| River Landscape brown ink on cream antique laid paper 12.4 x 18.9 cm Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum, MA Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| Saint Francis in a Swoon oil on wood panel 48.5 x 35 cm Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK |
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| Saint Roch and the Angel oil on canvas 81.3 x 62.2 cm Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
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| Self-Portrait? pen and brown ink, in a double inscribed oval 12 x 9 cm (auction house) |
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| Sketch of a Man carrying a Bell details not given (ink on paper?) The Royal Collection Trust, UK |
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| St. Catherine of Alexandria pen and brown ink and grey wash, squared in black chalk 14 x 8.9 cm (auction house) |
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| Study of the legs of a reclining Putto red chalk on paper 10.8 x 19.7 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| Study of a Monk red chalk on paper slightly toned with pink-red chalk 19.7 x 14.4 cm (auction house) |
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| Study of a Man in a Cloak pen and iron-gall ink and wash over black chalk with later grey wash 32 x 14 cm (sheet) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Study of a Head black chalk heightened with white chalk on grey paper 20.1 x 27.5 cm (auction house) |
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| Study for the figures of Mars and Venus details not given (pen, ink and wash?) The Royal Collection Trust, UK |
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| Study for Apostles at the Tomb black chalk on blue antique laid paper 34.5 x 23.5 cm Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, MA Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| Study for an Ignudo black and white chalk on grey-blue paper (size not given, auction house) |
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| Study after etching of the Pietà (the 'Christ of Caprarola') pen and brown ink on paper 14.2 x 15.1 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| Studies of a Boy and a Girl red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on beige paper 22.9 x 32.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| St. Jerome writing (attributed to Carracci) pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on tan laid paper 15.8 x 21.9 cm Princeton University Art Museum, NJ |
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| Susanna and the Elders pen and brown ink, with brown wash on paper 15.5 x 21.8 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| Susanna and the Old Men engraving, line etching on paper (size not given) Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki |
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| The Adoration of the Shepherds oil on canvas 103 x 85 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, France |
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| The Head of a Boy red chalk on tan antique laid paper 27.1 x 20.7 cm Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, MA Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| The Head of a Woman black and white chalk on blue paper 36.2 x 26.3 cm (auction house) |
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| The Infant Hercules oil on copper 20.3 x 15.6 cm Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, UK |
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| The Return from the Flight into Egypt oil on canvas 66 x 88.6 cm (auction house) |
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| The Return from the Presentation in the Temple pen and brown ink with grey-brown wash on paper 40.4 x 28 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| The Virgin and Child resting outside a City Gate pen and brown ink, brush with traces of brown wash, on light brown beige paper 18.8 x 21.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| The Vision of Saint Eustace oil on canvas 86 x 113 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Two Children Teasing a Cat oil on canvas 66 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Entombment of Christ oil? on wood panel 45 x 35 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| A Girl with a Unicorn etching 4,6 x 18.8 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 20.5 x 15.4 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 20.5 x 15.5 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 20.7 x 15.7 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 20.9 x 15.8 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 25.4 x 13.1 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 26.1 x 13.2 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 26.3 x 13.5 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 26.7 x 14.1 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 27.7 x 16 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 27.8 x 14.4 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 28.5 x 15.3 cm cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| Design for Domenichino etching 28.8 x 15.1 cm (image) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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