Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Testa di giovane ridente (Head of a Laughing Youth) c.1585 Oil on paper on canvas, 44.5 × 29.5 cm Galleria Borghese, Roma The painting, mentioned as ‘Buffoon laughing’, has been part of the Borghese collection since 1693 and…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Autoritratto con altre figure (Self-Portrait with Other Figures) c.1593 Oil on canvas, 60 × 48 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Agonia nell’orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1596–1597 Oil on panel, 39.1 x 30.3 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle Against a dark background the figure of Christ kneels, his head turned right towards the figure of an angel in…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Testa d’uomo di profilo (Head of a Man in Profile) c.1588–1595 Oil on canvas, 44.8 x 32.1 cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle This vivid head is precisely the type of study from everyday life practised so passionately by…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Susanna e i vecchioni (Susanna and the Elders) 1604 Oil on panel, 56.8 x 86.1 cm Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma This is the “Casta Susanna with the two old men” on a panel by Annibale Carracci described by…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Sileno che raccoglie l’uva (Silenus gathering Grapes) 1597–1600 Oil and egg on wood, 54.5 x 88.5 cm National Gallery, London Using an animal skin, two laughing satyrs with pointed ears and short tails – although without the usual hairy…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Piccola macelleria (The Butcher’s Shop) c.1582 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 71 cm Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Around the time that he painted The Butcher’s Shop, in about 1582, Annibale Carracci joined his older cousin Ludovico and…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Ragazzo che beve (Boy Drinking) 1582–1583 Oil on canvas, 55.8 x 43.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Together with his brother Agostino and cousin Lodovico, Annibale Carracci introduced artistic reforms in Italy based on close observation of…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Due bambini molestano un gatto (Two Children Teasing a Cat) c.1587–1588 Oil on canvas, 66 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York With expressions of cruel delight, two children torment a cat with the pincers of…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a young merchant 1541 Oil on oak, 46.5 × 34.8 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Holbein created a new style of portraiture that is characterized by monumentality paired with extreme painterly precision. The young businessman…