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.

Carracci, Agostino

Biography

Notable Works

Artworks

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

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

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

Five Legs and Three Feet

La Gierusalemme Liberata

Symbolicarum Quaestionum. . .Libri Quinque

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

Aeneas and his family fleeing Troy

Stage set for the marriage of Ferdinand de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine in Florence in 1589; Apollo and the Python

Orpheus and Eurydice

Coat of Arms of a Cardinal of the Sampieri Family

Omnia Vincit Amor

Bust of an Old Man

The Crucifixion

Ecce Homo