CARRACCI, Annibale, Italian painter : b. Bologna 1560; d. Rome 1609. He worked first with his father, who was a tailor. By the advice of Lodovico Carracci he learned draw ing, and made the most astonishing, progress, copying first the pieces of Correggio, Titian and Paul Veronese, and painting, like them, small pictures, before he undertook large ones. In the academy founded by the Carracci he taught the rules of arrangement and distribu tion of figures. He is one of the greatest imi tators of Correggio. His 'St. Roque Dis tributing now in Dresden, was the first painting which gave him reputation. His 'Genius of Glory' is likewise celebrated. In the Farnesian Gallery at Rome, which he, aided by his brother Agostino, painted (1600-04), there breathes an antique elegance and all the grace of Raphael. You find there imitations of Tibaldi (who painted at Bologna about 1550 with Nicolo del Abate), of Michelangelo (the style, indeed, somewhat softened), and the excellencies of the Venetian and Lombard schools. Outside of Bologna he is acknowl edged as the greatest of the Carracci. In that
city, however, Lodovico is more admired. Agostino, perhaps, had more invention, and Lodovico more talent for teaching; but Annibale had a loftier spirit, more spon taneity, naiveté and naturalness, and his i style is more eloquent and noble. His atelier in Rome was the workshop of many famous artists, among them Domenichino and Albani. He was buried at the side of Raphael in the Pantheon. His best picture is that of 'The Three Marys,' now at Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, England. He excelled in landscapes, many of which may be found in Paris, Petrograd, Madrid, Florence and espe cially in the Palazzo Doris Panifili, Rome. Consult Tietze, Annibale Carraccis Gallerie in Palazzo Farnese und seine ramische Werk in 'Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhochsten Kaiserhauses X XVI) (Vienna 1906); Schmerber, 'Betrach tungen fiber die italienische Malerei im 17ten Jahrhundert' (Strassburg 1906).