after this, Annibale, who had worked himself nearly to death on the Farnese
Gallery, suffered a physical and mental collapse. After 1603, he painted little
and, toward the end, “neither spoke nor remembered.” Ŷ
Federico Barocci:
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1573, oil on canvas, 4’ x 7’ 6”
(1.2 x 2.2 m), Pinacoteca, Vatican Museums, Vatican State, Rome, Italy.Annibale Carracci:
Butcher’s Shop, c. 1582–83, oil on canvas, 6’ 2” x 9’ (1.9 x 2.7 m), Christ
Church, Oxford University, Oxford, Great Britain.
Choice of Hercules, c. 1595–96, oil on canvas, Capodimonte,
Naples, Italy.
Domine Quo Vadis? (Lord, Where Are You Going?), c. 1602, oil
on panel, 30 ½ x 22 ¼” (77.4 x 56.3 cm), National Gallery, London,
Great Britain.
Farnese Gallery, 1597–1600, fresco, 66 x 22’ (20 x 6.7 m), Palazzo
Farnese, Rome, Italy.
Pietà, c. 1599–1600, oil on canvas, 5’ 1 ½” x 4’ 10 ½” (1.5 x 1.4 m),
Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.
Polyphemus and Galatea, Polyphemus and Acis, Triumph of Bacchus
and Ariadne, c. 1597–1600, fresco, Farnese Gallery, Palazzo Farnese,
Rome, Italy.Correggio:
Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1526–30, ceiling fresco, Parma Cathedral,
Parma, Italy.
Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine, c. 1523–25, 42 x 40 ¼”
(1.05 x 1.02 m), Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.
Venus, Satyr and Cupid, c. 1524–25, oil on canvas, 6’ 2” x 4’ 1 ¼”
(1.88 x 1.25 m), Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.Works Discussed