Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)Born in Bologna in 1560, the son of a tailor, Annibale Carracci was trained in painting by his cousin Ludovico (1555-1619) and learned engraving from his brother Agostino (1557-1602). Like Ludovico, he, too, studied the art of Northern Italy, traveling to Parma in 1580, to Venice with Agostino in 1581-82, and probably also to Florence. He returned to Bologna sometime in 1582, the year that the three Carracci established their academy and shortly afterward began the first of their joint commissions, the fresco decorations in the Palazzo Fava. From then on, there followed a succession of stupendous altarpieces in which the critical lessons of such artists as Correggio, Titian, and Veronese are progressively developed and integrated by Annibale within a unifying concept of naturalistic illusionism, based, in particular, upon an unmannered design that is given optical verisimilitude through the manipulation of pure, saturated colors and the atmospheric effects of light and shadow.This print is a reproduction of Annibale Carracci's masterpiece, The Genius of Fame. The original is in Rome.
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