16th century
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Aphorisms
Art academies
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Bologna
Carracci Academy
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Early Modern period
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European art
Farnese Gallery
forthcoming
Humour
new Raphael
Renaissance art
Rome
Product details
- ISBN 9781836392460
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In late sixteenth-century Bologna, Annibale Carracci reinvigorated painting through a renewed study of nature in vivid depictions of a bean-eater and butchers, and moving religious images. In Rome, Annibale painted the exuberant loves of the gods in the Farnese Gallery – frescoes comparable to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Villa Farnesina – which catapulted him to fame as a ‘new Raphael’. He was celebrated as a man of wit and a devoted teacher. This first modern biography in English highlights Annibale’s incisive pictorial and verbal wit and the shifts in taste that later obscured his legacy. Reassessing his art with clarity and nuance, the book brings into focus a painter of remarkable breadth and intelligence who profoundly shaped European art.
F. M. Gage is Associate Professor of Art History at SUNY, Buffalo State University. Her publications include Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art (2016).
