Ludovico Carracci

Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci
	Bologna, Italy
Died	13 November 1619 (aged 64); Bologna
Education	Prospero Fontana
Known for	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-

etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism

. He died in Bologna in 1619.

Biography

Ludovico apprenticed under

Loves of the Gods

in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Agostino joined Annibale there briefly.

While Ludovico remained in Bologna, this does not mean that he was any less influential, the biography of Lanzi states that around 1585, Ludovico and his cousins had founded the so-called Eclectic Academy of painting (also called the Accademia degli Incamminati). More recent conjectures are that there was no established Academy with curriculum, but that Ludovico tutored many in his studio.

This studio however propelled a number of Emilian artists to pre-eminence in Rome and elsewhere, and singularly helped encourage the so-called

Domenichino. The Carracci had their apprentices draw studies focused on observation of nature and natural poses, and use a bold scale in drawing figures.^[1] Two of Ludovico's main pupils were Giacomo Cavedone and Francesco Camullo

.

Restitution

In 2009, Carracci's painting of St. Jerome (c. 1595) was restituted to the heirs of Max Stern, a German Jewish art dealer persecuted and looted by the Nazis^[2]^[3]

Ludovico Carracci's works
Lamentation of Christ (ca. 1582)^[4]
Madonna and Child with St Francis of Assisi (1591) – known as "La Carraccina" due to the admiration of the young Guercino^[5]
Madonna and Child with Saints
Annunciation
Transfiguration by Lodovico Carracci
Abraham and the Three Angels
Saint Sebastian Thrown into the Cloaca Maxima
The Funeral of the Virgin Mary

References

^ "Lodovico Carracci | Italian painter". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
^ "New Yorker returns Nazi-looted art hanging in his room". www.lootedart.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
^ "Seventh Stern painting restored to estate". www.lootedart.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
^ Oil on canvas, 95 x 173 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
^ "La Carraccina". bbcc.ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it (in Italian). Regione Emilia Romagna. Retrieved 9 February 2019.

Sources

Babette Bohn, Ludovico Carracci and the Art of Drawing Brepols 2004
Allessandro Brogi, Ludovico Carracci Bologna 2001
Andrea Emiliani (ed.), Ludovico Carracci exh. cat. Bologna-FortWorth 1994 (with Essay and catalogue by Gail Feigenbaum)

External links

Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Ludovico Carracci (see index)
Whitfield Fine Art
Catholic Encyclopedia: Carracci

[1] "Lodovico Carracci | Italian painter". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-08-18.

[2] "New Yorker returns Nazi-looted art hanging in his room". www.lootedart.com. Archived from the original on 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

[3] "Seventh Stern painting restored to estate". www.lootedart.com. Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

[4] Oil on canvas, 95 x 173 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

[5] "La Carraccina". bbcc.ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it (in Italian). Regione Emilia Romagna. Retrieved 9 February 2019.

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