Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
<p>Annibale Carracci was a vibrantly naturalistic painter, a draftsman, and the founder of an artist’s school. This luminous print represents the culmination of the 20 religious intaglio works engraved by the artist. Carracci created the work during a period at the end of his career in Rome marked by self-doubt, and the scene reflects his increasingly personal devotion. As here, the figural groupings in his last prints became increasingly monumental, even as he adopted a more intimate scale.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1606
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 12.5 × 16.2 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 13.5 × 16.9 cm (5 3/8 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Annibale Carracci
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Annibale Carracci was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother Agostino and cousin Ludovico, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades.
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Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
1606 · Red chalk on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory wove card
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1606 · etching and engraving on laid paper
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1606 · Etching and engraving
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- Annibale Carracci
- Year
- 1606
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 12.5 × 16.2 cm (4 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 13.5 × 16.9 cm (5 3/8 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1606-111340
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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