Agostino Carracci

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Agostino Carracci
Self portrait as a watchmaker
Born16 August 1557
Bologna, Papal States
DiedMarch 23, 1602(1602-03-23) (aged 44)
Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Agostino Carracci (or Caracci; 16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter,

School of Bologna
to prominence.

Life

Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman
The Lamentation (c. 1586)

Agostino Carracci was born in

Correggio. He also produced some original prints, including two etchings
.

He traveled to

Palazzo Farnese. From 1598 to 1600 is a triple Portrait, now in Naples, an example of genre painting. In 1600 he was called to Parma by Duke Ranuccio I Farnese to begin the decoration of the Palazzo del Giardino, but he died before it was finished. His friend the poet Claudio Achillini composed an epitaph, which was later published by Carlo Cesare Malvasia in the life of the Carracci.[3]

Agostino's son Antonio Carracci was also a painter, and attempted to compete with his father's Academy.

An engraving by Agostino Carraci after the painting Love in the Golden Age by the 16th-century Flemish painter

Matisse's Le bonheur de vivre (Joy of Life).[4]

Critical evaluation

While his undoubted value in the graphic field is widely recognised, Agostino, as a painter, although admired by his contemporaries, ended up being overshadowed by the fame of his brother Annibale. Perhaps even his long practice of engraving ended up putting him at disadvantage, since he might have been perceived as more inclined to copy than to create.

Even Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who included Agostino Carracci in his selective collection of biographies of artists (Vite de' pittori, scultori e architetti moderni, 1672), described his activity as a painter, with the sole exception of the Communion of Saint Jerome, a work that he praises, almost entirely limited to the role of supporting his younger brother Annibale, and reproaches him for having dedicated too much of his work to graphic production.[5]

The modern critical evaluation of the painter Agostino Carracci probably still suffers from the negative legacies of the past. The fact that there is still only one important monograph dedicated to him published (Stephen E. Ostrow, from the United States, 1966, never translated into Italian), and that an individual exhibition on this artist has yet to be held, are probably significant factors that show that he remains an underrated artist.

However, there have been a positive critical reevaluation of the painter, since there is now a better awareness of his artistic role, alongside his more famous relatives, and the knowledge of his personal work is now greater.

Works

Oil on canvas unless otherwise noted

Fresco collaborations with Annibale and Ludovico

Undated

  • The Penitent Magdalen (private collection)
  • Carracci's erotic work
    (prints)

See also

Bibliography

  • Stephen E. Ostrow, Agostino Carracci (1966), Thesis (Ph. D.) New York University, New York

References

  1. ^ Agostino Carracci at Getty
  2. ^ Carracci at the Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. ISBN 9780271044378
    .
  4. ^ Thomas Puttfarken, "Mutual Love and Golden Age: Matisse and 'gli Amori de' Carracci", The Burlington Magazine, 124 (Apr. 1982): 203–208.
  5. ^ Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni, 1672 (Italian)
  6. ^ "Pietà, (engraving)". In the Light of Caravaggio: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from Southeastern Museums. Muscarelle Museum of Art. 2018. Retrieved 20 Jun 2018.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Agostino Caracci, The Lamentation in the Hermitage
  8. JSTOR 880057
    .
  9. ^ "Louvre Museum Official Website". louvre.fr. 1575.

External links

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