LODOVICO CARRACCI (BOLOGNA 1555-BOLOGNA 1619)
A seated male nude
c.1590RCIN 902082
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 the Sala d’Eneide in 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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