Annibale Carracci
Baroque Painter
(Bologna, Italy, 1560 - 1609, Rome, Italy)
Bohlin, Diane De Grazia.
Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family: a Catalogue Raisonné. Exhib. cat. Washington, D.C., National Gallery, 1979.
ULAN note: Annibale is considered one of the greatest Italian painters of his age. His style is marked by naturalism combined with the formal language of Classicism in a grand and monumental style. Annibale was also instrumental in evolving the ideal, classical landscape and is generally credited with the invention of caricature. Italian painter.
Some information from Getty's Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN)