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Christ Crowned with Thorns
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Christ Crowned with Thorns

Annibale Carracci

1606

Medium

Etching

Tags

MenChrist

Dimensions

Plate: 7 1/16 × 5 5/16 in. (18 × 13.5 cm) Sheet: 7 11/16 × 5 13/16 in. (19.5 × 14.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1918

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Annibale Carracci

1560–1609 • Papal States

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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