Agostino left his profession as a tailor to become an artist. His earliest works were engravings, which was an extremely profitable practice and he was famed for having attained new heights of perfection. He was also a skilled painter and collaborated with his famous relations on various commisions. Comment on works: Religious; Portraits.

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Carracci, Agostino阿戈斯蒂诺·卡拉奇

Biography

Notable Works

Artworks

Figure Studies for Various Female and Male Figures (recto); Threes Amors in the Garden of Venus (verso)

Seated Nude Male Figure (recto); Ornamental Designs of Foliage, a Grotesque Head, and a Leg (verso)

Studies of Nudes and Human Heads (recto and on the verso)

Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman (recto); Bust-Length Study of a Girl (verso)

Studies and Sketches for Figures: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, Male Heads, Seated Monkey, and a Long-Beaked Bird (a Stork?) (recto); Figure Studies: Back View of Standing Male and Female Heads, a Flying Long-Beaked Bird, etc. (verso)

Omnia Vincit Amor

Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus

Love Conquers All (Omnia vincit Amor), in a struggle with a satyr Amor places his right knee on its thigh, two nude nymphs are seated with interlocking legs at the base of a tree

Coat of Arms of a Cardinal of the Sampieri Family

Satyr whipping a nymph, who is shown from behind and bound to a tree, a second satyr bearing a club stands in the middle ground

Ogni cosa vince l'oro

Orpheus and Eurydice

Bust of an Old Man

Heilige Hieronymus

Portret van acteur Giovanni Gabrielli

Omnia vincit Amor

Bewening van Christus

Heilige Familie

Aeneas vlucht met zijn familie uit Troje

Heilige Hieronymus

De heilige Franciscus getroost door een musicerende engel

Heilige Hieronymus

Aeneas vlucht met zijn familie uit Troje

De heilige Franciscus getroost door een musicerende engel