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Carracci
Family of Italian artists
The Carracci (/kəˈrɑːtʃi/ kə-RAH-chee, UK also /kəˈrætʃi/ kə-RATCH-ee, Italian: [karˈrattʃi]) were a family of Italian artists. Art historians have studied their works individually and collectively.
Notable members include:
- the three members who worked together and are known collectively as the Carracci, i.e.:
- Agostino Carracci (1557-1602), Italian painter and printmaker
- Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), Italian Baroque painter and brother of Agostino Carracci
- Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), Italian painter, etcher, printmaker, and cousin of Agostino and Annibale Carracci
- Antonio Marziale Carracci (1583-1618), Italian painter and son of Agostino Carracci
- Baldassare Aloisi (1578-1638), painter and engraver whose mother, Elena Zenzanini, was a cousin of Agostino and Annibale Carracci
- Francesco Carracci (1595-1622), Italian painter and engraver, nephew of Agostino and Annibale Carracci
- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680), painter, whose common law wife was Baldassare Aloisi's daughter
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Annibale, Ludovico and Agostino Carracci, Bolognese School.jpg by Unidentified painter, Public domain
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