Carracci

frescoes, death, bologna and brought

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After finishing the frescoes in the Farness Pal ace, Annibale sunk into a deep melancholy and brought on. it is said. because of disap pointment over the small sum of money which he received for that great work-500 crowns in all. His illness prevented !oho from executing the more remunerative commissions which were of fered him, and after a brief journey to Naples. where the noirderous local artists much annoyed him. he died. July 15, 1009. lIe was accorded the honor of burial in the Pantheon, near the resting-place of Raphael.

'Meanwhile Lodovico remained head of the academy in 13ologna, busily engaged in teaching and in executing a number of his most important works. In 1004 and 1005 he decorated, with leis pupils, the large court of the ,,,monastery Santa Maria in Bosco. near Bologna, with frescoes from the lives of Saint Benedict and Faint Ce The seven frescoes which he himself exe cuted are pieces of decoration, and although much defaced. they may he studied from the of t3iovannini (Bologna, 1090) or Zanotti lib.. 17701. For the Cathedral of Piacenza he painted. in 1008 and 1009. Iwo large canvases representing the "Burial of Mary," which are mow in the Italleria Farnese, Parma, and a series of fine frescoes: in the sanc tuary. "(lionises of Angels" and a "Limbus."

and in the arch over the tribune. "Angels Strew ing Flowers," the latter work almost equaling Correggio in (-harm. Between 1009 and death he executed other important vanvases. among which is the "Conversion of Saint Paul," in the INIuni•ll Gallery. His last works werein of Booloma. and a slight mi-stake in his fresco of the "Annunciation," which he was not permitted to rectify, so troubled him that it brought on a fever, which resulted in his death on November 13, 11;1t1, Ile was buried with great splendor, noblemen of the city bearing lois bod• to the tomb, for he was greatly beloved as a modest, just, and unselfish man.' Axrox 10 NA1IZIALE CARRACCI (1583-161S), painter, was a natural son of Agostino, upon whom the family placed great hopes, which were thwarted by- his early death. He studied under his father and uncle, and his art resembles theirs. His chief works in fresco Were in the Church of San Bartolomeo del Isola ( I Ionic) , but have been ruined by time and restoration. Ilis chief canvas is "The Flood," now in the Louvre.

Consult: Bolognonini-Amorini. Le rite di Lo dOriro, .1yostino, Annibale cd altri dei l'orrmei Bologna. 1842). and the works cited for Rolm UN ESE SillOOL OF PAtxrt NG, espevially that of danitscheek.

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