Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna. This teaching academy promoted the Carracci emphasized drawing from life. It promoted progressive tendencies in art and was a reaction to the Mannerist distortion of anatomy and space. The academy helped propel painters of the School of Bologna to prominence.
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known as just Correggio, was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Baroque art of the seventeenth century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. He is considered a master of chiaroscuro.
Annibale Carracci was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades.
Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Bartolomeo Schedoni was an Italian early Baroque painter from Modena.
The Ducal Palace, also known as Reggia di Colorno, is an edifice in the territory of Colorno, Emilia Romagna, Italy. It was built by Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma in the early 18th century on the remains of a former castle.
The Galleria nazionale di Parma is an art gallery in Parma, northern Italy.
The Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist is a 1518 oil on panel painting by Antonio da Correggio.
The Madonna and Child with Two Musician Angels is an oil on panel painting by Correggio, now in the Uffizi in Florence. Some date it to 1514-15 but it is more commonly dated to 1515–16.
Nursing Madonna with an Angel is an oil painting on panel by Correggio, painted around 1524 and now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. It measures 68.5 by 87 cm and belongs to the Nursing Madonna or Madonna Lactans genre.
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is an oil on panel painting measuring 63 by 53 cm, dating to around 1518 and painted by Correggio and now held in the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.
The Holy Family with Saint Jerome is a 68 by 56 cm oil on poplar panel painting by Correggio. It dates to around 1515 and is now displayed in the East Closet of Hampton Court Palace as part of the Royal Collection. It has similarities with the Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and so it probably dates to around the time Correggio painted the frescoes in the Camera di San Paolo or possibly slightly earlier. It shows the Holy Family and saint Jerome.
La Zingarella is a 49 x 37 cm oil on panel painting by Correggio dating to around 1516-1517. It shows the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, although it omits the figure of Saint Joseph. It is now in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.
Pietà is a c. 1600 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, the earliest surviving work by him on the subject, which was commissioned by Odoardo Farnese. It moved from Rome to Parma to Naples as part of the Farnese collection and is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. It is one of many 16th century Bolognese paintings dedicated to the theme of the Pietà, and it is counted among Carracci's masterpieces.
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is a c.1520 oil on panel painting by Correggio, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.
Portrait of a Young Man Seated on a Carpet is a c. 1525–1527 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in the National Museum of Capodimonte. Its subject is unknown.
Judith and Her Maidservant or Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes is a circa 1510–1514 oil on panel painting by Correggio, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 252.
Christ in Glory with Saints and Odoardo Farnese or 'Christ in Glory with Odoardo Farnese and Saints Peter, John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene, Hermenegild and Edward is a painting by Annibale Carracci. Placed in the Eremo di Camldoli either early in its life or straight after its creation, at the end of the 17th century Ferdinando II de' Medici moved it to the Galleria Palatina in Florence, where it still hangs.
Pietà with Saints Clare, Francis and Mary Magdalene is a 1585 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now in the Galleria nazionale di Parma.
Saint Margaret of Antioch is a 1599 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, showing Margaret of Antioch. It hangs in Santa Caterina dei Funari church in Rome.
