Ludovico Carracci The Virgin and Child Appearing to ST Hyacinth (mk05) Painting ID:: 20344 new5/Ludovico Carracci-276558.jpg
The Virgin and Child Appearing to ST Hyacinth (mk05) 1594
Canvas,147 1/2 x 88'(375 x 223 cm)From the Turrini Chapel in San Domenico in Bologna,1796;entered the Louvre in 1797
Ludovico Carracci Susannah and the Elders Painting ID:: 43083 new16/Ludovico Carracci-256826.jpg
Susannah and the Elders mk170
1616
Oil on canvas
146.6x116.5cm
Ludovico Carracci Bargellini Madonna Painting ID:: 58297 new20/Ludovico Carracci-538244.jpg
Bargellini Madonna Bargellini Madonna (1588) Oil on canvas, 282 x 188 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.
Ludovico Carracci Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni in Armour Painting ID:: 76327 new24/Ludovico Carracci-746436.jpg
Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni in Armour Date 1597-1600
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 101 ?? 85 cm (39.8 ?? 33.5 in)
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(Bologna 1555-1619)
Painter, draughtsman and etcher. His father, Vincenzo Carracci, was a butcher, whose profession may be alluded to in Ludovico's nickname 'il Bue', though this might also be a reference to the artist's own slowness. Ludovico's style was less classical than that of his younger cousins Agostino and Annibale, perhaps because of a mystical turn of mind that gave his figures a sense of other-worldliness. Like his cousins, he espoused the direct study of nature, especially through figure drawing, and was inspired by the paintings of Correggio and the Venetians. However, there survives in his work, more than in that of his cousins, a residue of the Mannerist style that had dominated Bolognese painting for most of the mid-16th century. Ludovico maintained a balance between this Mannerist matrix, his innate religious piety and the naturalism of the work of his cousins. With the exception of some travels during his training and a brief visit to Rome in 1602, Ludovico's career was spent almost entirely in Bologna.