m Ancient engraving CARRACCI AgostinoItaly, Bologna 1557, Rome 1602Ancient engraving CARRACCI Agostino,'' The Seller of Drawings''Very good conditions. Signed on the back in ink.Work dimensions 100 x 120 mm (12cm x 10cm)Dimensions w/ Frame 260 x 145 mm ( 26cm x 24.5 cm)BiographyAgostino Carracci, (born 1557, Bologna [Italy]—died February 23, 1602, Parma), Italian painter and printmaker whose prints after paintings by Federico Barocci, Tintoretto, and Titian circulated widely throughout Europe and were appreciated by Rembrandt, among other artists .Agostino was the older brother of the painter Annibale Carracci, with whom he traveled in northern Italy, visiting Venice and Parma. Agostino's early work demonstrates the influence of the Venetian painters Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese. He subsequently followed the lead of his brother de él Annibale, who he helped decorate the Galleria of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome from 1597 to 1599. In the latter year Agostino left Annibale to serve as court painter for Ranuccio Farnese in Parma; he died there without completing his own major endeavor in fresco, the decoration of a room in the Palazzo del Giardino. Agostino's painterly style was not as dynamic or as proficient as that of his brother. Engraving formed a major part of his output from him from 1580, however.

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