Article: Carracci Family

CARRACCI FAMILY

CARRACCI FAMILY (Annibale, 1560 1609; Agostino, 1557 1602; Ludovico, 1555 1619), Italian painters. The careers of the Carracci family of painters from Bologna the brothers Annibale and Agostino, and their elder cousin Ludovico, straddled the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries both chronologically and stylistically. Among the first generation of artists to come of age after Giorgio Vasari had published his history of Italian art, the Carracci were intensely conscious of their own positions within the stylistic progressions, local traditions, and pantheon of great painters set forth by Vasari. Collectively the Carracci are best known for ...

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