Agostino Carracci
Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1557-1602)
Agostino Carracci (sometimes also spelled Agostino Caracci, 16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. His brother Annibale and cousin Lodovico Carracci were more famous than he was.
Pen and brown ink on laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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He thought nature was an ideal. He founded a school that was competing with that of Caravaggio. Together with his brothers, he founded the Accademia degli Incamminati. The academy helped painters of the School of Bologna to become famous.
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