Agostino Carracci
Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1557-1602) · Artists · Died at 44
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Something wrong?He helped blow up Mannerism. Agostino Carracci and his brother and cousin opened a teaching academy in Bologna that became the engine for a whole new school of painting - one that turned late-16th-century Italian art in a different direction.
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Carracci Self-portrait
Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom MET DP839088
Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom MET DP839089
Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom MET DP839090
Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom MET DP839091.jpg?width=1200)
A Group of Shepherds, and Other Studies, by Agostino Carracci (Getty 103R0Z)%3B_Head_of_a_Monk%3B_Caricature_of_a_Man_in_Profile_(verso)%2C_by_Agostino_Carracci_(Getty_103R7G).jpg?width=1200)
Cupid Overpowering Pan (recto); Head of a Monk; Caricature of a Man in Profile (verso), by Agostino Carracci (Getty 103R7G)
Five numbered scenes MET DP837878Family
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Born in August 1557, Agostino Carracci worked as a painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and teacher. Alongside his brother Annibale and cousin Ludovico, he founded the Accademia degli Incamminati - the Academy of the Progressives - in Bologna. The academy's purpose was to devise alternatives to the Mannerist style that had dominated the preceding decades. That teaching project succeeded: it propelled the painters of the School of Bologna to prominence and shifted the course of Italian art. Agostino died in March 1602.
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