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LODOVICO CARRACCI (BOLOGNA 1555-BOLOGNA 1619)

A seated male nude

c.1590

RCIN 902082

In the 1580s Ludovico Carracci and his cousins, Agostino and Annibale, established an academy in Bologna that insisted on drawing from the life as the foundation of artistic practice. This is a study for a fresco in the Sala d’Eneide of Palazzo Fava in Bologna, painted jointly by the Carracci, and depicts a companion of Aeneas crushing a harpy. The use of sticky oiled charcoal led Ludovico to simplify the form of the powerfully built figure.

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