Saint Benedict Moving the Stone which a Demon Had Made Immobile
Lodovico Carracci
after 1606
Medium
Pen and black ink, over black chalk, on golden-brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
29.6 × 20.9 cm (11 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
6952
About the Artist
Lodovico Carracci
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.