Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557 – March 22, 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci.
Agostino Carracci
Drawings
Head of a Dog
Study sheet
Illustrations
Allegory of the Prophet David
Bear and a bee
Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Christ
Christ and the Samaritan Woman
Christ and the Samaritan Woman
The Sudarium of St Veronica
St. Francis
St. Francis
The Adoration of the Magi
The Adoration of the Magi
The Flight of Aeneas
The belt donation
The Virgin of the Annunciation
The cords of St. Francis
The love in the golden age
The Madonna Appearing to St. Jerome
Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine
The Weed sowing Devil
The sermons of St. Francis
The Rest on the Flight
The Temptation of St. Anthonius
The revival of Patroclus
Ecce homo
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence "Twelve Apostles with Christ the Judge "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie "
Sequence of " holy women "
Sequence of " holy women "
Sequence of " holy women "
Sequence of " holy women "
Sequence of " Holy Women "
Sequence of " Holy Women "
Sequence of " Holy Women "
Sequence of " Holy Women "
Holy Trinity
Holy Family
Holy Family
Holy Family with Saints and Angels
Holy Family with Saints
St. Francis
St. Francis
St. Francis with music-making angel
St. Francis and a music-making angel
St. Jerome
St. Jerome
St. Jerome
St. Malachy
St. Mary Magdalene
St. Roch
St. Sebastian
Dog
Illustration for the " Vita di Cosimo de ' Medici "
Illustration for the " Vita di Cosimo de ' Medici "
Illustration for Campi » Cremona Fedelissima "
Illustration for Campi » Cremona Fedelissima "
Illustration for Campi » Cremona Fedelissima "
Jacob and Rachel at the Well
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Crucifixion
Madonna in the clouds
Madonna in the clouds
Madonna and Child
Madonna and Saints
Madonna of St. Jerome
Maria lactans in a landscape
Annunciation
Mars sold by Minerva
Martyrdom of St. Justina of Padua
Mater Dolorosa
Mercury and the Three Graces
Model for a keyhole
Omnia vincit Amor
Pietà
Pietà
Portrait of Caterina Sforza
Portrait of Christine of Lorraine
Portrait of Ferdinand I de ' Medici
Portrait of Francesco Denaglio
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Pona
Portrait of Giovanni Gabrielli
Portrait of Giovanni Tommasso
Portrait of Pope Innocent IX .
Portrait of Ulisse Aldrovandi
Portrait of a man
Portrait of Titian
Reciprico Amore
Rest on the Flight to Egypt
Satyr , a sleeping nymph watching
Protective coat madonna
Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus
Tobias and the Angel
Venus and Satyr
Preparation for the flight to Egypt
He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty (for lack of a better term) view of nature as expressed by Caravaggio. He was, along with his brothers, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati, which helped propel painters of the School of Bologna to prominence.
Life
Agostino Carracci was born in Bologna, and trained at the workshop of the architect Domenico Tibaldi. Starting from 1574 he worked as a reproductive engraver, copying works of 16th century masters such as Federico Barocci, Tintoretto, Antonio Campi, Veronese and Correggio. He also produced some original prints, including two etchings.
He travelled to Venice (1582, 1587–1589) and Parma (1586–1587). Together with Annibale and Ludovico he worked in Bologna on the fresco cycles in Palazzo Fava (Histories of Jason and Medea, 1584) and Palazzo Magnani (Histories of Romulus, 1590–1592). In 1592 he also painted the Communion of St. Jerome, now in the Pinacoteca di Bologna and considered his masterwork. From 1586 is his altarpiece of the Madonna with Child and Saints, in the National Gallery of Parma.
In 1598 Carracci joined his brother Annibale in Rome, to collaborate on the decoration of the Gallery in Palazzo Farnese. From 1598–1600 is a triple Portrait, now in Naples, an example of genre painting.
In 1600 he was called to Parma by Duke Ranuccio I Farnese to began the decoration of the Palazzo del Giardino, but he died before it was finished.
Agostino's son Antonio Carracci was also a painter, and attempted to compete with his father's Academy.
Works
* Head of a Faun in a Concave (drawing in roundel, c. 1595, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
* The Penitent Magdalen (Private collection)
* The Annunciation , Musée du Louvre, Paris [1]
* The Lamentation , Hermitage, St. Petersburg [2]
* Erotic work
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