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Annibale Carracci, Painter
Italian, 1560 - 1609
La Nativite (The Nativity )...tenth plate of the book...Le MusÈe royal (Paris: P. Didot, l*ainÈ, 1818), vol. 2, 16th - 17th century
engraving and etching
43.9 x 33.1 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts

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Designer, Gianni~engraver, Johann Heinrich Lips~author or editor, Henri Laurent~publisher, Didot

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Artist Biography: Painter and etcher, born in Bologna 1560 the younger brother of Agostino. First signed and dated print in 1581. In 1582 founded Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna with Agostino. Worked in Venice in 1588, in Rome in 1594 to work for Cardinal Farnese, whose palace he frescoed in the following years. Died in Rome 1609.~~Reference: Istituto Nazionale per la grafica. Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori. Roma: 1986, …cole franÁaise de Rome.~Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family. Washington: 1979, National Gallery of Art.~Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920. vol. 18.~Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century. The Illustrated bartsch vol. 39. New York: 1980, Abaris Books.~