PAINTER

Annibale Carracci

1560 - 1609

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Annibale Carracci (Italian pronunciation: [anˈniːbale karˈrattʃi]; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annibale Carracci has received more than 539,930 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Annibale Carracci is the 113th most popular painter (up from 114th in 2019), the 396th most popular biography from Italy (down from 379th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Italian Painter.

Annibale Carracci was a painter from Bologna, Italy. He is most famous for his work on the Farnese Gallery in Rome.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Annibale Carracci ranks 113 out of 2,023Before him are Claude Lorrain, Guido Reni, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Georges de La Tour, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, and Ivan Aivazovsky. After him are Simone Martini, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Giorgio de Chirico, Juan Gris, Fernando Botero, and Yayoi Kusama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1560, Annibale Carracci ranks 2Before him is Elizabeth Báthory. After him are Thomas Harriot, Jacobus Arminius, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Gaspard Bauhin, Thomas Cavendish, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Anton Praetorius, and Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. Among people deceased in 1609, Annibale Carracci ranks 1After him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Jacobus Arminius, Federico Zuccari, Gasparo da Salò, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Yi San-hae, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and John Leonardi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Annibale Carracci ranks 396 out of 5,161Before him are Pope Stephen I (200), Gianni Versace (1946), Pope Liberius (310), Pope Marinus II (932), Pope John II (470), and Pope Benedict VII (910). After him are Luigi Cherubini (1760), Ancus Marcius (-675), Pope John XI (910), Simone Martini (1284), Pope Benedict IX (1012), and Pope Silverius (490).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Annibale Carracci ranks 34Before him are Lisa del Giocondo (1479), Filippo Lippi (1406), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), Bronzino (1503), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), and Guido Reni (1575). After him are Simone Martini (1284), Andrea del Sarto (1486), Parmigianino (1503), Antonello da Messina (1430), Lavinia Fontana (1552), and Pontormo (1494).