The Lives of Annibale and Agostino Carracci

by Giovanni Pietro Bellori

The decisive role of the Carracci in seventeenth-century art was as apparent to their contemporaries as it is now, in our own time. Annibale Carracci ranks directly after Caravaggio as the most important Italian painter of the Baroque era. He established the tradition of Roman baroque classicism so firmly that it flourished in an unbroken line Carracci to Albani to Sacchi to Maratta for more than a century.Generation after generation of artists came...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271731281
• ISBN13: 9780271731285
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.5"