Annibale Carracciİtalya, 1560–1609Study of Triton Blowing a Conch Shell (recto); Partial Study of an Arm (verso)
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Annibale Carracci drew Triton Blowing a Conch around 1600; the sheet is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Black and white chalk on blue-grey paper describe a muscular figure turning to announce an event. The monumental body recalls ancient sculpture and Michelangelo. The figure was designed for the Farnese Gallery fresco of Thetis by Agostino Carracci. An arm fragment on the reverse matches a separate study now in New York, establishing that this drawing was cut from a larger sheet.
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A nude triton displays his rippling, muscular figure as he turns to blow a conch shell announcing a special event. His powerful sculptural form and sense of monumentality derive from ancient Roman sculpture and Renaissance art, especially Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel *ignudi*, while the use of black and white chalks on blue-gray paper reflects Annibale Carracci's interest in Venetian art of the 1500s. Annibale made this drawing as a study for a triton for Agostino Carracci’s fresco, *Thetis Borne to the Wedding Chamber of Peleus*, also known as Galatea. The Carracci brothers began work on the decoration of the Galleria Farnese in Rome, including this fresco, in 1597. For centuries, this cycle of paintings influenced artists as much as Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling. Beginning with drawing from life and understanding anatomy, the Carracci focused on painting the human figure.
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Their drawings of the nude maintained monumental proportions while broadly sketching the body's essential structure; combining robust energy with soft, rhythmic contours. The fragment of an arm on the verso of this drawing was trimmed from a study of a triton now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, proving that this sheet was once part of a larger one.
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Annibale Carracci: hayatındaki yeri
Tüm yaşam öyküsü1595–1609 · Çalıştığı yer
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.
1602
The commission for the Herrera Chapel
In 1602 Annibale received the commission to decorate the Herrera Chapel in the Roman church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli. The surviving parts of the frescoes were later transferred to the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona and some to the Prado Museum in Madrid.
1602
A trip to Emilia-Romagna, probably for Agostino’s funeral
After 1595 Annibale left Rome only twice; the first time was briefly in 1602, to Emilia-Romagna, probably for the funeral of his brother Agostino.
1602–1609
Pupil: Antonio Marziale Carracci
