Editing Annibale Carracci (section)

==Under a melancholic humor==

It is not clear how much work Annibale completed after finishing the major gallery in the Palazzo Farnese. In 1606, Annibale signed a ''Madonna of the bowl''. However, in a letter from April 1606, Cardinal Odoardo Farnese bemoaned that a "heavy melancholic humor" prevented Annibale from painting for him. Throughout 1607, Annibale was unable to complete a commission for the Duke of Modena of a ''Nativity''. There is a note from 1608, where in Annibale stipulates to a pupil that he will spend at least two hours a day in his studio. There is little documentation from the man or time to explain why his brush was stilled.

In 1609, Annibale died and was buried, according to his wish, near Raphael in the [[Pantheon, Rome|Pantheon]] of Rome. It is a measure of his achievement that artists as diverse as [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini|Bernini]], Poussin, and [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]] praised his work. Many of his assistants or pupils in projects at the Palazzo Farnese and Herrera Chapel would become among the pre-eminent artists of the next decades, including [[Domenichino]], [[Francesco Albani]], [[Giovanni Lanfranco]], [[Domenico Viola]], [[Guido Reni]], [[Sisto Badalocchio]], and others.