CARRACCI, Annibale (b. 1560, Bologna, d. 1609, Roma) Venus with a Satyr and Cupids c. 1588 Oil on canvas, 112 x142 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Acquired in 1620 for the Medici collections, this painting, which was already famous in the 17th century, was for moral reasons covered over with another canvas of a more chaste allegorical subject through most of the 18th century. The recovery of the original in 1812 has restored to us a work of great importance in Annibale Carracci's youthful development. If we are to believe the date, 1588, written on the back of an old copy, the painting fa
CARRACCI, Annibale (b. 1560, Bologna, d. 1609, Roma) Venus with a Satyr and Cupids c. 1588 Oil on canvas, 112 x142 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Acquired in 1620 for the Medici collections, this painting, which was already famous in the 17th century, was for moral reasons covered over with another canvas of a more chaste allegorical subject through most of the 18th century. The recovery of the original in 1812 has restored to us a work of great importance in Annibale Carracci's youthful development. If we are to believe the date, 1588, written on the back of an old copy, the painting falls in a decisive year for the young painter: the time, that is, of his evolution from late Mannerist Bolognese culture, already enriched by Correggio, towards the colour-light sysnthesis of Titian and Veronese, from which would emerge the neo-Venetianism at the foundation of the Carraccesque "reform". --- Keywords: -------------- Author: CARRACCI, Annibale Title: Venus with a Satyr and Cupids Time-line: 1551-1600 School: Italian Form: painting Type: mythological
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