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Baptized April 21, 1555 • Bologna • Italy
Died November 13, 1619 or November 14, 1619 • Bologna • Italy
Founder Accademia degli Incamminati
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture • Bolognese school
House / Dynasty Carracci family
Annibale Carracci
Italian painter
Agostino Carracci: engraving of Titian's Tiziano Vecelli
Agostino Carracci
Italian painter
Last Communion of Saint Jerome, oil painting by Domenichino, 1614; in the Vatican Museum.
Domenichino
Italian painter
Il Guercino: Abraham Driving Out Hagar and Ishmael
Il Guercino
Italian artist
Plate 13: “Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome.
Guido Reni
Italian painter
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
Caravaggio
Italian painter
Pietro da Cortona: St. Martina
Pietro da Cortona
Italian artist
Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith with Her Maidservant
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian painter
Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco: Saint Cecilia and an Angel
Orazio Gentileschi
Italian painter
Fontana, Lavinia: Portrait of Gerolamo Mercuriale
Lavinia Fontana
Italian painter
“Fortune Teller,” oil painting by Piazzetta, 1740; in the Accademia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian painter
Albani, Francesco: Paris Awarding the Apple to Venus
Francesco Albani
Italian painter
The Confessional
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Italian painter
Domenico Fetti
Italian painter
The Triumph of the Name of Jesus
Baciccio
Italian painter
Dolci, self-portrait, oil painting; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Carlo Dolci
Italian painter
Ciro Ferri: Triumph of Bacchus
Ciro Ferri
Italian painter
Sebastiano Conca
Italian painter
St. Charles Borromeo at Supper, oil painting by Daniele Crespi, c. 1628; in the church of Santa Maria della Passione, Milan.
Daniele Crespi
Italian painter
Lanfranco, Giovanni: Assumption of the Virgin
Giovanni Lanfranco
Italian painter

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