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Annibale Carracci BIOGRAPHY
1560 Bologna, Italy - 1609 Rome, Italy. Known for: Baroque religious genre and figure painting.
Annibale Carracci was known as eclectic because he selected the things he most admired from the great artists before him and fused them into his own work. He was a fine artist in his own right and... Read full biography
Annibale Carracci was known as eclectic because he selected the things he most admired from the great artists before him and fused them into his own work. He was a fine artist in his own right and original enough to do this successfully. His many followers of lesser talent leaned so heavily upon... Read full biography
Annibale Carracci was known as eclectic because he selected the things he most admired from the great artists before him and fused them into his own work. He was a fine artist in his own right and original enough to do this successfully. His many followers of lesser talent leaned so heavily upon their predecessors that the art of such eclectic painters fell into disrepute and eclecticism became a term of disgrace. Annibale was the youngest of three brothers who ran an academy of painters. Sons... Read full biography
Annibale Carracci was known as eclectic because he selected the things he most admired from the great artists before him and fused them into his own work. He was a fine artist in his own right and original enough to do this successfully. His many followers of lesser talent leaned so heavily upon their predecessors that the art of such eclectic painters fell into disrepute and eclecticism became a term of disgrace. Annibale was the youngest of three brothers who ran an academy of painters. Sons of a Bologna butcher, Ludovico (1555-1619) was the eldest and founder of the Academy. By preference he specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudite. A superb draftsman, he... Read full biography
Annibale Carracci was known as eclectic because he selected the things he most admired from the great artists before him and fused them into his own work. He was a fine artist in his own right and original enough to do this successfully. His many followers of lesser talent leaned so heavily upon their predecessors that the art of such eclectic painters fell into disrepute and eclecticism became a term of disgrace. Annibale was the youngest of three brothers who ran an academy of painters. Sons of a Bologna butcher, Ludovico (1555-1619) was the eldest and founder of the Academy. By preference he specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudite. A superb draftsman, he excelled in etching and his paintings of broad-bottomed nudes are among the Carraci's best. Of all the family, Annibal... Read full biography
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Annibale Carracci was known as eclectic because he selected the things he most admired from the great artists before him and fused them into his own work. He was a fine artist in his own right and original enough to do this successfully. His many followers of lesser talent leaned so heavily upon their predecessors that the art of such eclectic painters fell into disrepute and eclecticism became a term of disgrace.
Annibale was the youngest of three brothers who ran an academy of painters. Sons of a Bologna butcher, Ludovico (1555-1619) was the eldest and founder of the Academy. By preference he specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudit...But wait, there's more...
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