Ludovico Carracci St Francis in Meditation ca. 1580-85 oil on copper Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
Ludovico Carracci Madonna dei Bargellini 1588 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
Ludovico Carracci Holy Family with St Francis and Donors 1591 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica, Cento |
Ludovico Carracci Virgin and Child appearing to St Hyacinth 1594 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
Ludovico Carracci St Peter in Penitence ca. 1595 oil on canvas private collection |
Ludovico Carracci The Transfiguration 1595 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
Ludovico Carracci The Transfiguration (detail) 1595 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
Ludovico Carracci The Transfiguration (detail) 1595 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
Ludovico Carracci The Crowning with Thorns 1595 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
Ludovico Carracci Martyrdom of St Pietro Toma 1598-99 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
Ludovico Carracci St Sebastian ca. 1600 oil on canvas Galleria Doria Pamphilij, Rome |
Ludovico Carracci Vision of St Francis of Assisi ca. 1602 oil on copper Art Institute of Chicago |
Ludovico Carracci The Annunciation 1603-1604 oil on canvas Palazzo Rosso, Genoa |
Ludovico Carracci Assumption of the Virgin 1606-1607 oil on canvas Galleria Estense, Modena |
Ludovico Carracci Orlando delivering Olympia from the Sea Monster (scene from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso) before 1619 oil on canvas National Trust, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire |
"Orlando, an English Christian knight, is coming to the rescue of a maiden by thrusting an anchor into the jaws of an orc. For optimum dramatic effect, the artist has brought together two episodes from Orlando Furioso. Olympia, a Dutch princess, abandoned by her faithless husband, Bireno, was captured by pirates and left on the island of Ebuda from which Orlando freed her (canto X). Angelica, the pagan daughter of the King of Cathay, by whom, incidentally, the love-sick Orlando was driven mad, was chained naked to a rock and sacrificed to a sea monster but rescued by the Saracen warrior, Ruggiero (canto XI)."
– from curator's notes at the National Trust