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
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.