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Annibale Carracci, artist
Italian, 1560 - 1609
Piet‡ (the Christ of Caprarola), 1597
Etching with engraving and drypoint
12.3 x 16.2 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.37098

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publisher, Nicolaus van Aelst

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Artist Biography: Painter and etcher, born in Bologna 1560 the younger brother of Agostino. First signed and dated print in 1581. In 1582 founded Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna with Agostino. Worked in Venice in 1588, in Rome in 1594 to work for Cardinal Farnese, whose palace he frescoed in the following years. Died in Rome 1609.~~Reference: Istituto Nazionale per la grafica. Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori. Roma: 1986, …cole franÁaise de Rome.~Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Washington: 1979, National Gallery of Art.~Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920. vol. 18.~Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated bartsch vol. 39. New York: 1980, Abaris Books.~