CARRACCI, Annibale c. 1596
Oil on canvas, 167 x 273 cm
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples The Choice of Heracles sd Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1560-1609
Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, brother of Agostino Carracci. Since his lifetime, he has been considered one of the greatest Italian painters of his age. His masterpiece, the ceiling (1597-1601) of the Galleria Farnese, Rome, merges a vibrant naturalism with the formal language of classicism in a grand and monumental style.
