Annibale CarracciItalian, 1560–1609Susanna en de ouderlingen
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Where is “Susanna en de ouderlingen” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Dutch
De badende Susanna wordt lastiggevallen door twee oude mannen die dreigen haar aan te geven op beschuldiging van overspel indien zij zich tegen hen verzet. Op de voorgrond rechts een fontein met een putto op een schildpad en een naakste figuur staand op een schelp. Op de achtergrond een landschap. Tekst en wapenschild in ondermarge.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-H-H-732
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
In the life of Annibale Carracci
The whole life1578–1595 · Workplace
Bologna
1587–1588
A trip to Parma and Venice
In 1587–88 Annibale is known to have travelled to Parma and then to Venice, where he joined his brother Agostino.
1594
Cardinal Farnese summons the brothers to Rome
In 1594 Cardinal Odoardo Farnese invited Annibale and his brother Agostino to Rome to decorate the Palazzo Farnese with frescoes on mythological subjects.
1595
Moves to Rome for good, into the Palazzo Farnese
Probably in September or October 1595 Carracci moved from Bologna to Rome for good and settled in the Palazzo Farnese.
1595–1609 · Workplace
Rome
1597–1605
Assistants at the Palazzo Farnese: the masters to come
Many of Annibale’s assistants and pupils on the projects at the Palazzo Farnese and the Herrera Chapel became pre-eminent artists of the next decades, among them Domenichino, Francesco Albani, Giovanni Lanfranco, Domenico Viola, Guido Reni and Sisto Badalocchio.
