Important 16th Century Italian Renaissance Baroque Old Master Drawing Watercolor byAnnibale Carracci, Circa 1590

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An important Italian late Renaissance Old Master drawing, in the mannerism style, by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), the drawing circa 1590.

… Read more An important Italian late Renaissance Old Master drawing, in the mannerism style, by Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), the drawing circa 1590.

A rare and important old master drawing by one of the leading figures in the late Italian Renaissance and early Baroque period. The drawing depicts the Virgin seated on a cloud and looking towards heaven with her arms extended. She is surrounded and elevated by other figures, including putti and saints.
The drawing is rendered in red chalk on laid paper and is housed in an 18th century walnut frame. Condition is very good, this rare and important drawing is ready to grace your wall.
The drawing came from a long term American collection of old master drawings spanning three generations.

Artist Biography:
Annibale Carracci was an Italian painter working in Bologna and later in Rome. Together with his brothers, Ludovico and Agostino, he was one of the founders of a leading trend in Baroque style, aspiring to the rebirth of classical monumentality with a new vital dynamism.
As a leading figure of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, he is often credited as a founding father of the Baroque movement, providing a "middle path" between the artificiality of Mannerism and the extreme, gritty realism of his contemporary, Caravaggio See less