Annibale Carracci, the Farnese Gallery, RomeThe magnificent frescoes in chapels, town halls, and palaces across Italy together represent one of the greatest achievements of Renaissance art. Commissioned both by private patrons and by the Church, artists such as Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, and Annibale Carracci responded with images of matchless beauty. Leading scholars of Renaissance art and culture treat the works selected for this series in their artistic and historical contexts; each cycle is illustrated with a complete set of the highest quality color reproductions. |
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Agostino Carracci Annibale Carracci Annibale's Annibale's fresco Apollo and Marsyas appears architectural Arion arms Aurora and Cephalus Bacchus and Ariadne Bellori writes Bologna Bull Cardinal cartoon colors cornice Cupid and Pan decorative devices Diana and Callisto Diana and Endymion Dolphin Domenichino end walls epic epigrams Eros and Anteros Farnese Gallery ceiling fictive FIGURE four corners frescoes Galatea Galeria GENVS VNDE LATINVM goddess gods Hercules and Iole Hercules Freeing Prometheus herms Hero and Leander heroic ignudi infant loves intonaco Jupiter Jupiter and Juno Loggia di Psiche long walls love's power marble Marino Medusa Michelangelo Minerva and Prometheus niches Ovid Palazzo Fava Pan and Syrinx Paris and Mercury Perseus and Andromeda Perseus and Phineas Planudean anthology plaster poem Polyphemus Furioso Polyphemus Innamorato quadri minori Ranuccio Farnese Raphael Raphael and assistants Roman Rome Sistine Chapel ceiling Tibaldi Torso vault Venus and Anchises Venus and Triton viewer Villa Farnesina window wall