Artist: Agostino Carracci (1557 - 1602)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Baroque
Media: Painting,Drawing
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Biography:
A member of the Carracci family that consisted of a long line of artists, Agnostino was no exception. He was a talented engraver and teacher. He also created drawings of the human body with so much accuracy that engravings produced from them were used as teaching tools two hundred years after their production. In 1582, the Carracci founded the Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the Initiated.) It soon became the most popular teaching academy in Bologna. They taught Mannerist ideas and emphasized drawing from life. In 1597, Agnostino moved to Rome to live and work with his brother Annibale on the Farnese Gallery frescoes. After an argument in 1600, Agnostino moved to Parma to work on another commission for the Farnese family and died there in two years later.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Agostino Carracci, Copy of the engraving by Agostino Carracci, Orpheus and Euridice, 17th century
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Agostino Carracci, copy after the engraving by Agostino Carracci, Orpheus and Eurydice, 16th - 17th century
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Agostino Carracci, copy after the engraving by Agostino Carracci, A Satyr Approaching a Sleeping Nymph, 17th century
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Agostino Carracci, copy after the engraving by Agostino Carracci, Venus or Galatea Supported by Dolphins, circa 17th century
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Agostino Carracci, Pietý, 1582
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Agostino Carracci, Pietý, after an etching by Annibale Carracci, Christ of Caprarola, 1598
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Agostino Carracci, St Jerome, 1602
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Agostino Carracci, Portrait of Titian, 1587
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Agostino Carracci, The Three Graces, 1590 - 1600
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Agostino Carracci, The Holy Family, 1597
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Agostino Carracci, St. Jerome, circa 1602
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Agostino Carracci, Portrait of Pope Innocent IX, 1591
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Agostino Carracci, Omnia Vincit Amor, 1599
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Agostino Carracci, St. Catherine of Alexandria, circa 1581
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Agostino Carracci, St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, 1586
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Agostino Carracci, Andromeda, circa 1590 - 1595
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Agostino Carracci, Christ and the Samaritan Woman, 1580
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Agostino Carracci, Venus, 16th - 17th century
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Agostino Carracci, Academic Nude, 16th century
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Agostino Carracci, Satyr Whipping a Nymph, 1590 - 1600
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Agostino Carracci, St. John the Baptist, from the series Santini, 1581
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Flaminio Torri, Cupid and Pan, after Agostino Carracci, circa 1660
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Agostino Carracci, Andromeda (or, Hesion), circa 1590 - 1595
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Agostino Carracci, A Headpiece in the Form of a Fan, circa 1589 - 1595
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Francesco Brizio, The Virgin and Child in a Landscape, after Agostino Carracci, 1595
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Fr. Paria, The Communion of St. Jerome, after Agostino Carracci, 17th century
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Agostino Carracci, The Virgin Protecting Members of a Confraternity, circa 1582
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Agostino Carracci, The Harmony of the Spheres, after Bernardo Buontalenti, 1589 - 1592
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Agostino Carracci, Saint Jerome, after Francesco Vanni, circa 1595
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Agostino Carracci, Tobias and the Angel, after the drawing by Raffaellino da Reggio now in the Uffizi, 1581
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Agostino Carracci, Mars Driven Away from Peace and Abundance by Minerva, after Tintoretto, 1589
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Agostino Carracci, St. Francis Consoled by the Musical Angel, after Francesco Vanni, 1595
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Agostino Carracci, Venus or Galatea Supported by Dolphins, circa 1590 - 1595
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Agostino Carracci, Ascension of St. Paul the Hermit (?), 16th - 17th century
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Agostino Carracci, Portrait of Titian, after a painting by Titian in the Staatliche Museum, Berlin, 1587
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Agostino Carracci, Madonna and Child Seated on a Crescent Moon, after Jacopo Ligozzi, 1589
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Agostino Carracci, Ecce Homo, after a painting by Correggio (National Gallery, London), 1587
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Agostino Carracci, The Madonna Appearing to St. Jerome, after a painting by Tintoretto (Accademia, Venice), 1588
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Agostino Carracci, Mercury and the Three Graces, after Tintoretto"s painting in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1589
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Kneeling Figure

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (9)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Birth of Baroque: The Carracci at the Metropolitan
This exhibition of the Metropolitan's important group of paintings, drawings, and prints by the Carracci features Ludovico's Lamentation (1528), recently purchased by the Museum and described by Metropolitan Director Philippe de Montebello a...
Detroit Institute of Art: Little Treasures : Northern and Italian Paintings of the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Included are little-known works associated with Correggio, Annibale Carracci and Pietro da Cortona as well as a number of Dutch paintings including two associated with Rembrandt. Several of the exhibited pictures are paint...
National Gallery of Art: The Drawings of Annibale Carracci
The exhibition is made possible by Republic National Bank of New York, and Safra Republic Holdings S.A., Luxembourg. Annibale Carracci is justly celebrated for his na...
San Diego Museum of Art: Master Drawings from the Collection of Alfred Moir
Included are fine examples by Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Luca Giordano, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Solimena, Salvator Rosa, Abraham Bloemaert, and Simon Vouet. The exhibition presents a selection of works from the personal...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Italian Masterpieces From Raphael To Tiepolo
The works range in scale from intimate devotional paintings and portraits to state commissions, monumental altarpieces and mythological paintings. Italian Masterpieces from Raphael to Tiepolo will offer the public an unprecedented opportunity to e...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints
The exhibition of 62 prints is organized by the National Lending Service of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It will comprise prints ranging in date from 1500 to 1601. Together, they suggest that the portrait is inextricable from its so...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Old Master Drawings from the Albertina, Vienna
While extensive restoration at the Albertina is undertaken, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit a glorious pageant of 100 works that reflect the breadth and quality of Duke Albert’s original collectio...
Bayly Art Museum: Virgins, Gods, Saints and Lovers: Strangeness and Style in Mannerist Prints
The term mannerism refers to works that show certain stylistic tendencies such as the use of geometric forms, deformation or elongation of figures, exaggerated gestures, strange lighting and perspectives, and evocative atmosphere. The diverse s...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Works from Renaissance to 20th-Century Highlight How Artists and their Workshops Used Both Sides of the Sheet
The unusual display allows viewers to trace the creative process as an artist sketched from one side of the sheet to the other, to see how works were copied by assistants in Renaissance workshops, and to understand the increasing shift toward a co...

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