Madonna with Child and Saint Francis by Antonio Carracci
Español Madonna with the Child and Saint Francis by Antonio Carracci, oil on copper, 1605. Carracci was born in the parish of Saint Lucia in Venice, probably in 1583, the product of an affair with a courtesan called Isabella, occurring on his father's first visit to Venice. He first apprenticed with his father, who admired his "Madonna and Child" completed at the age of seventeen. When his father died in 1602, Antonio moved to Rome to work under his uncle Annibale to whom he developed a deep affection. He likely worked on the frescoes of the Galleria Farnese, on the lunettes for the Palazzo Aldobrandini chapel, and probably in the Herrera Chapel. After his uncle’s passing he received commissions in Rome from Cardinal Tonti and Cardinal Peretti-Montalto, including the ‘’Stanza del Diluvio’’ in the Quirinal Palace, and major altarpieces like ‘’Madonna and Child with Saints’’ (in Berlin) and the Galleria Corsini's ‘’Nativity’’. Antonio was well known for doing cabinet-...
