1560 — 1609

Nationality: Italy

Annibale Carracci was a major Italian painter and is regarded as one of the founders of the Baroque. Trained in Bologna alongside his brother Agostino and his cousin Ludovico, he played a crucial role in renewing Italian painting at the end of the 16th century by reconciling observation from life, the heritage of the Renaissance, and a new dramatic intensity. His religious, mythological, and decorative works had a lasting influence on 17th-century Roman painting.