Annibale was considered one of the greatest Italian painters of his age. His style is marked by naturalism combined with the formal language of Classicism in a grand and monumental style. Annibale was also instrumental in evolving the ideal, classical landscape and is generally credited with the invention of caricature. Italian painter. Comment on works: Mythology.

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Carracci, Annibale

Biography

Notable Works

Artworks

Highlighted Work(1)

The Coronation of the Virgin

All Artworks

Two Children Teasing a Cat

The Burial of Christ

Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness

River Landscape

Venus Adorned by the Graces

Head of a Woman Looking to Upper Left

Study for an Angel (recto); Study of a Cushion (verso)

The Drunken SiIenus: Design for the "Tazza Farnese"

Crawling Male Figure (Study for Cacus)

Triton Sounding a Conch Shell

Studies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in a Three-Quarter View and for His Hands (recto); Studies for a Figure of Saint Francis Kneeling in Profile (verso)

A Domestic Scene

The Virgin and Child Resting Outside a City Gate

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Seated Youth Facing Right, Seen from the Back

Landscape with Jacob Sleeping

Anteros Victorious

Studies of a Boy and a Girl (recto) Studies of Legs (verso)

Hercules and Omphale

Perseus Beheading Medusa (recto); Studies of a Child and Ornament Sketches (verso)

Back View of a Seated Nude Youth Facing Left

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Madonna della Scodella), the seated Mary and the infant Christ hold a cup from which the young Baptist drinks, Elizabeth lifts both hands