Madonna and Child with Angels
Lodovico Carracci
1595/1610
Medium
etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (cut within platemark): 16.2 x 11.6 cm (6 3/8 x 4 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2002.44.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Lodovico Carracci · 1555–1619
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.