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Allegorical composition with six Olympian gods gathered around a figure in armor

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Allegorical composition with six Olympian gods gathered around a figure in armor

Ludovico Carracci | Oliviero Gatti

1615–35

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 14 1/16 × 15 1/4 in. (35.7 × 38.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Ludovico Carracci

1555–1619 • Papal States

Lodovico's style is charaterized by being less classical than that of his younger cousins, Agostino and Annibale, his figures have a sense of other-worldliness, and he is more influenced by Mannerist art than his cousins. Like his cousins, he espoused the direct study of nature, especially through figure drawing; he was influenced by the paintings of Correggio and the Venetians.

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