Ludovico Caracci
Italian, 1555 - 1619
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BiographyBorn in 1555 in Bologna and died in 1619, Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci was an early-Baroque painter, etcher and printmaker in his hometown. In his early years, he apprenticed to popular Bolognese painter Prospero Fontana. His works present a strong sense of mood with a heavy use of gesture and light. This will later merge with the formalistic Mannerism style. He is the cousin of famous artist Annibale Carracci whom was said to have gained the most fame out of the cousins. Together with his cousins Annibale and Agostino, he founded the Carracci academy in Bologna which is credited as being a source of reformation from the highly Mannerist Italian art at the time.
NationalityItalian