Carracci Paintings

Annibale Carracci is a hugely famous Italian baroque artist who produced the majority of his best work in the 16th century. As with many Baroque artists of the time Carracci painted frescos commonly with religious themes which has not really been continued into the modern day, and certainly not to the standard that the greatest Baroque artists achieved. Carracci is known to have carried on the achievements and success of the likes of Raphael and Michelangelo.

In the modern day Carracci and Caravaggio are two artists commonly compared and discussed. Both created some extraordinary depictions of religious icons, as seen in Carracci's Assumption of the Virgin Mary which is now to be seen at the Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome.