[[Image:Carracci Agostino Faun.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Head of a Faun'' (c. 1595) 181 x 187 mm <br />Pen and brown ink on laid paper <br /> National Gallery of Art, Washington.]]
[[image:Agostino Carracci.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Communion of St. Jerome'' (1592). <br> Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.]]
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'''Agostino Carracci''' (or '''Caracci''') ([[August 16]], [[1557]] - [[March 22]], [[1602]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]] and [[printmaker]]. He was the brother of the more famous [[Annibale Carracci|Annibale]] and cousin of [[Lodovico Carracci]].

He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty (for lack of a better term) view of nature as expressed by [[Michelangelo Merisi|Caravaggio]]. He was, along with his brothers, one of the founders of the [[Accademia degli Incamminati]], which helped propel painters of the [[Bolognese School (painting)|School of Bologna]] to prominence.

==Life==
Agostino Carracci was born in [[Bologna]], and trained at the workshop of the architect Domenico Tibaldi. Starting from [[1574]] he worked as a reproductive [[engraver]], copying works of 16th century masters such as [[Federico Barocci]], [[Tintoretto]], [[Antonio Campi]], [[Paolo Veronese|Veronese]] and [[Correggio]]. He also produced some original prints, including two [[etching]]s.

He travelled to [[Venice]] (1582, 1587-1589) and [[Parma]] (1586-1587). Together with Annibale and Ludovico he worked in Bologna on the fresco cycles in Palazzo Fava (''Histories of Jason and Medea'', 1584) and [[Palazzo Magnani]] (''Histories of [[Romulus]]'', 1590-1592). In 1592 he also painted the ''Communion of St. Jerome'', now in the [[Pinacoteca di Bologna]] and considered his masterwork. From 1586 is his altarpiece of the ''Madonna with Child and Saints'', in the National Gallery of [[Parma]].

In [[1598]] Carracci joined his brother Annibale in Rome, to collaborate on the decoration of the Gallery in [[Palazzo Farnese, Rome|Palazzo Farnese]]. From 1598-1600 is a ''triple Portrait'', now in [[Naples]], an example of genre painting.

In [[1600]] he was called to Parma by Duke [[Ranuccio I Farnese]] to began the decoration of the Palazzo del Giardino, but he died before it was finished.

Agostino's son [[Antonio Marziale Carracci|Antonio Carracci]] was also a painter, and attempted to compete with his father's Academy.

==Works==
*''Head of a Faun in a Concave ''(drawing in roundel, c. 1595, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)
*''The Penitent Magdalen ''(Private collection)
*''The Annunciation '', Musée du Louvre, Paris [http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=18809]
*''The Lamentation '', Hermitage, St. Petersburg[http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/quickSearch.mac/gallery?selLang=English&tmCond=Carracci+Agostino]
*[[Erotic art of Agostino Carracci|Erotic work]]

==External links==
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03374c.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Carracci]

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