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  • Annibale Carracci - part 2

    9 days ago - By Poul Webb

    C1590-1600 Self Portrait in Profile oil on canvas 37.9 x 45.4 cm
    Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy "Neither clean nor well-dressed, with his collar askew, his hat jammed on any old way and his unkempt beard, Annibale Carracci seemed to be like an ancient philosopher, absent-minded and alone," wrote an early biographer. A tailor's son, Carracci considered himself a craftsman, not a courtier, but the Romans buried him in the Pantheon beside Raphael. Along with his older brother Agostino and his cousin Lodovico, Annibale founded the Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna, which focused on...
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