Agostino Carracci
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Pen and brown ink on laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557, in Bologna - March 22, 1602, in Parma) was an Italian painter and graphical artist. He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty (for lack of a better term) view of nature as expressed by Caravaggio. He was, along with his brothers, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati, which helped propel painters of the School of Bologna to prominence.
Despite working in a post-Tridentine (Council of Trent) environment restricting the use of public images, Agostino profited from the making of engravings of graphic and explicit sexual images of mythologic or heroic love-making scenes. In Rome, his brother Annibale completed the elaborate fresco of Loves of the Gods for the Palazzo Farnese, whose images from Ovid's Metamorphoses intimate but do not depict the act of lovemaking.
See also his brother Annibale Carracci and his cousin Lodovico Carracci.
- Drawing: Head of a Faun in a Concave (roundel) (c. 1595, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
- The Penitent Magdalen (Private collection)
- The Annunciation (Louvre) [link]
- The Lamentation (Hermitage)[link]
Gallery
Carracci's depictions of nominally historical and mythological characters in explicit sexual acts can be seen here:
[Agostino Carracci's erotic engravings]
External links
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