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Saint Anthony the Abbot Preaching to the Hermits

Technical Details
  • Title
    Saint Anthony the Abbot Preaching to the Hermits
  • Author
    Ludovico Carracci
  • Year
    1615
  • Dimensions
    cm 320 x 210
  • Inventory
    122
  • Room
    XXVIII

This painting’s almost excessive emotional charge, clearly visible in the peasant faces and gnarled feet of the figures in the foreground, together with the ruins, stark against the blue sky, the palm tree framing the composition, the strong chiaroscuro and the exceptionally free bruswork, all combine to make it emblematic of Ludovico’s painting, which was on the verge of being supplanted by Guido Reni’s scholarly classicism even in Bologna.

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