Agostino Carracci . Faun's head. OK. 1595 . National Gallery of Art . Washington
The Bologna school of painting - several generations of artists who worked in the capital of the region Emilia-Romagna in the XVI-XVIII centuries. and competing with other art centers in Italy - Florence ( Florence School of Painting ) and Rome .
Its most significant representatives were the Carracci brothers, and first of all, Lodovico , who established the art academy of degli Incamminati ( Italian: Accademia degli Incamminati ) and opened the way for academicism in art, and later - masters of the Baroque era: Domenicino , Gverchino and Guido Reni .
Ubaldo Gandolfi . Ecstasy of St. Petronius
The largest artists of the school belonged to:
- Girolamo da Carpi ( 1501 - 1556 )
- Denis Calvert ( 1540 - 1619 )
- Lavinia Fontana ( 1552 - 1614 )
- Annibale Carracci ( 1560 - 1609 )
- Lodovico Carracci ( 1555 - 1619 )
- Agostino Carracci ( 1557 - 1602 )
- Guido Reni ( 1575 - 1642 )
- Domenichino ( 1581 - 1641 )
- Francesco Albany ( 1578 - 1660 )
- Giovanni Francesco Barbieri , nicknamed. Gverchino ( 1591 - 1666 )
- Carlo Chignani ( 1628 - 1719 )
- Elizabeth Sirani ( 1638 - 1665 )
- Giuseppe Maria Crespi ( 1665 - 1747 )
- Ubaldo Gandolfi ( 1720 - 1781 )
- Lorenzo Garbieri ( 1580 - 1654 )
See also
- Venice School of Painting
- Siena School of Painting
- Ferrara School of Painting
- Florence School of Painting
- Pisa (Luccano-Pisa) school of painting
- Umbrian school
Literature
- Bologna Carracci School // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Pepper DS The school of Bologna 1570-1730: Calvaert to Crespi. London: Harari & Johns, 1987.