Annibale Carracci (1560 – 1609)

• Was an Italian painter and instructor.
• Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna.
• He was active in Bologna and later in Rome.
• In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino and his cousin Ludovico Carracci opened a painters' studio. 
• In 1609, Annibale died and was buried, according to his wish, near Raphael in the Pantheon of Rome.
• It is a measure of his achievement that artists as diverse as Bernini, Poussin, and Rubens praised his work.
• Many of his assistants and pupils in projects at the Palazzo Farnese and Herrera Chapel would become among the pre-eminent artists of the next decades, including Domenichino, Francesco Albani, Giovanni Lanfranco, Domenico Viola, Guido Reni and Sisto Badalocchio.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Venus and Adonis, c. 1595, After Annibale Carracci.
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