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| The Coronation of the Virgin |
Artist:
Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)
Date:
after 1595
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
46 3/8 x 55 5/8 in. (117.8 x 141.3 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), by exchange, and Dr. and Mrs. Manuel Porter and sons Gift, in honor of Mrs. Sarah Porter, 1971
This majestic picture—a window onto Heaven—was painted for Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini (1571–1621) following the artist’s arrival in Rome in 1595. In it Annibale brings together two currents of Italian painting: a north Italian sensitivity to the effects of natural light and color, and the spatial organization and idealized figures associated with Raphael. The figure of God the Father was based on an ancient Roman sculpture of Jupiter. Together with Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci was the most influential painter of the seventeenth century and the main figure in the development of classicism.
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