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The Conversion of Saint Paul

Ludovico Carracci

ca. 1587–89

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache and cream color oil paint, over black chalk, on paper toned with light brown wash

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MenHorsesSaint Paul

Dimensions

sheet: 22 3/8 x 13 5/8 in. (56.8 x 34.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Rogers Fund and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2002

Classification

Drawings

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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