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Carracci
(redirected from Agostino Carracci)

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Car·rac·ci  (k-räch, kä-rät-)
Family of Bolognese painters, including Agostino (1557-1602), his brother Annibale (1560-1609), and their cousin Lodovico (1555-1619). Their works and influence led a reform of Mannerism that provided a transition to the baroque style.
Carracci [kəˈrɑːtʃɪ (Italian) karˈrattʃi]
n
(Biographies / Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602)) X) a family of Italian painters, born in Bologna: Agostino (agosˈtiːno) (1557-1602); his brother, Annibale (anˈniːbale) (1560-1609), noted for his frescoes, esp in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome; and their cousin, Ludovico (ludoˈviːko) (1555-1619). They were influential in reviving the classical tradition of the Renaissance and founded a teaching academy (1582) in Bologna


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In the text of Lucio Faberio's funeral oration for Agostino Carracci, which Malvasia reproduces in its entirety, there is, for instance, an important passage where Faberio lists the disciplines studied in the Carracci academy -- life drawing, anatomy, proportion, perspective, trompe l'oeil, anatomy, and literary invention -- but this passes without comment.
Malvasia's Life of the Carracci: Commentary and Translation. (Reviews) by Colantuono, Anthony / Renaissance Quarterly
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