Collection: Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome.

Along with his brother Agostino and cousin Ludovico (with whom he also worked collectively), 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.

His formative teachers included Prospero Fontana. Notable paintings include Saint Margaret of Antioch, Saint Francis in adoration of the Crucifix, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, and Assumption of the Virgin. His practice spanned portrait painting, history painting, and genre painting.