• Was an Italian painter and engraver.
• Carracci was the son of Giovanni Antonio Carracci, in Bologna, 1595.
• His father was a brother of
Agostino and Annibale Carracci.
• Francesco was taught by Ludovico, cousin of Agostino, in the Academy of the Incamminati, but left the school to start one in opposition to his teacher, calling it the "True School of the Carracci".
• His Adoration in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bologna, it is his masterpiece.
• The "True School" was not a success, and, his students left him.
• Francesco went to Rome and made another attempt to found an academy, only to fail again.
• He left a few engravings after the works of Lodovico and Annibale.
• He died in abject poverty in Rome, 1622.
