Artist
Ludovico Carracci
Italian, 1555–1619
Ludovico Carracci was an Italian Early Baroque Italian painter. 31 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. Ludovico Carracci was born in Bologna.
Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci ( kə-RAH-chee, UK also kə-RATCH-ee, Italian:; 21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism. He died in Bologna in 1619.
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