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Ludovico Carracci

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Ludovico Carracci was an Italian early Baroque painter, etcher and printmaker from Bologna. His works are marked by a strong mood created through broad gestures and flickering light that evokes spiritual emotion, and he is credited with helping reinvigorate Italian art, especially fresco painting, after it had become subsumed by formalistic Mannerism. He died in Bologna in 1619.

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    His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism.
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    was an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna
  • Practices: Printmaking, Lead
    was an Italian early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker from Bologna
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