Editing Annibale Carracci (section)

==Early career==
[[File:Annibale Carracci 1560-1609 Pieta.jpg|thumb|left |''[[Pietà (Annibale Carracci)|Pietà]]'' between 1599 and 1600]]
[[File:Annibale Carracci - Self-Portrait - WGA4448.jpg|thumb|160px|''Self-portrait'']]

Annibale Carracci was born in [[Bologna]], and in all likelihood was first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother [[Agostino Carracci|Agostino]] and his cousin [[Ludovico Carracci]] opened a painters' studio, initially called by some the ''Academy of the Desiderosi'' (desirous of fame and learning) and subsequently the [[Accademia degli Incamminati|''Incamminati'']] (progressives; literally "of those opening a new way"). Considered "the first major art school based on life drawing", the ''Accademia degli Incamminati'' was the model for later art schools throughout Europe.<ref>Boime, A., State University of New York at Binghamton., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute., & Finch College (N.Y.). Museum of Art. (1974). ''Strictly academic: Life drawing in the Nineteenth Century''. Binghamton: State University of New York at Binghamton. p. 7. {{OCLC|935594325}}</ref> While the Carraccis laid emphasis on the typically [[Florence|Florentine]] linear draftsmanship, as exemplified by [[Raphael]] and [[Andrea del Sarto]], their interest in the glimmering colours and mistier edges of objects derived from the [[Venice|Venetian]] painters, notably the works of Venetian oil painter [[Titian]], which Annibale and Agostino studied during their travels around Italy in 1580–81 at the behest of the elder Caracci, Ludovico. This eclecticism was to become the defining trait of the artists of the Baroque Emilian or [[Bolognese School (painting)|Bolognese School]].

In many early Bolognese works by the Carraccis, it is difficult to distinguish the individual contributions made by each.  For example, the frescoes on the story of ''Jason'' for  [[Palazzo Fava]] in Bologna (c. 1583–84) are signed ''Carracci'', which suggests that they all contributed. In 1585, Annibale completed an altarpiece of the ''Baptism of Christ'' for the church of [[Santi Gregorio e Siro]] in Bologna. In 1587, he painted the ''Assumption'' for the church of San Rocco in Reggio Emilia.

In 1587–88, Annibale is known to have had travelled to [[Parma]] and then [[Venice]], where he joined his brother Agostino. From 1589 to 1592, the three Carracci brothers completed the frescoes on the ''Founding of Rome'' for  [[Palazzo Magnani, Bologna|Palazzo Magnani]] in Bologna. By 1593, Annibale had completed an altarpiece, ''Virgin on the throne with St John and St Catherine'', in collaboration with [[Lucio Massari]]. His ''Resurrection of Christ'' also dates from 1593. In 1592, he painted an ''Assumption'' for the Bonasoni chapel in San Francesco. During 1593–94, all three Carraccis were working on frescoes in [[Palazzo Sampieri]] in Bologna.