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Carracci
(redirected from Annibale 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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Joyce demonstrates the reciprocity between Bellori's work as an antiquarian, particularly his study of ancient frescoes, and his modern art criticism focusing on Annibale Carracci.
Art History in the Age of Bellori: Scholarship and Cultural Politics ... by Ostrow, Steven F. / Renaissance Quarterly
The last main section, "On the Development of the Monumentalized Grotesque and its Metaphoric-Poetic Principle in the Sixteenth Century," proceeds from the premise that the rediscovery of the grotesque was of fundamental importance for the stylistic development of decorative systems from the late fifteenth century onward, examples of which - by Pinturicchio, Filippino Lippi, Michelangelo, Raphael, Perino del Vaga, Francesco Salviati and Annibale Carracci - are then analyzed.
"Finto e favoloso": Dekorationssysteme des 16. Jahrhunderts in ... by Apfelstadt, Eric C. / Renaissance Quarterly
Schutze and Willette each make a strong case for Stanzione's crucial links with Annibale Carracci and the Bolognese school, but they do so in very different terms.
Massimo Stanzione: L'opera completa by Colton, Judith / Renaissance Quarterly
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