Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci | |
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Bologna, Italy | |
Died | 13 November 1619 Bologna | (aged 64)
Education | Prospero Fontana |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Baroque |
Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-
Biography
Ludovico apprenticed under
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
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]
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Lamentation of Christ (ca. 1582)[4]
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Madonna and Child with Saints
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Annunciation
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Transfiguration by Lodovico Carracci
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Abraham and the Three Angels
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