Friday, June 25, 2021

Art by Ludovico Carracci (Guercino's Early Inspiration)

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