PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
The Virgiu and Cbikl, inscribed Detpara imago a diro
Zuca pict.^ ^r.
St. Charles Borromeo, kneeling.
A winged Angel pointing to a Skull.
Fonr Busts of Semiramis, Lucretia, Artemisia, and
Portia.
CARRACCI, LoDOVico, the real founder of the Eclectic school, was born at Bologna in 1555. Tlie two masters whom he had chosen, Fontana of Bologna and Tintoretto of Venice, counselled him to abandon the career of an artist, considering him incapable of ever succeeding in it ; and his fellow- students called him " the ox," on account of the slowness and heaviness of his mind, and also be- cause of his continual, determined, and indefatig- able application. He painted afterwards under Passignano, and also studied the works of Andrea del Sarto, at Florence ; at Parma he was impressed by the pictures of Correggio and Parmigiano, and at Venice by those of Titian. On his return to Bologna, Lodovico Carracci opened in 1589, in con- junction with his two nephews, Agostino and Anni- bale Carracci, an Academy " degli Desiderosi " ("Those who regret the past, despise the present, and aspire to a better futuie "), which was kept by the three together until 1600 (when the two brothers went to Rome), from which time till 1619, the year of his death, it was maintained by Lodovico alone. Soon after its opening, this academy acquired such renown that all establishments of a like nature in Bologna were closed : and Lodovico Carracci's fame rests rather on his teaching than on the works he himself executed. The Carracci reckoned amongst their pupils, Albani, Guido Reni, Domeni- chino, Lanfranco, Spada, and Tiarini. The fres- coes which Ludovico executed with the assistance of pupils in 1602, in San Michele in Bosco in Bologna, representing the ' Life of St. Benedict,' and the ' Life of St. Cecilia,' have perished. The following are his principal existing pictures :
Berlin. Gallery, Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes. Bologna. Palazzo "J History of Eomiilus and Kemus Magnani > {fresco ; painted in conjunction Guidotti.j ivith Annibale and Agostino). „ 5. Oregorio. St. George and the Dragon. „ „ The Annunciation. „ Finacoteca. The Transfiguration. „ „ Madonnaof the Bargellini Family. „ „ Birth of St. John the Baptist. „ „ And others. Florence. Vffizi. His own Portrait. Parma. Museum. Burial of the Virgin. Milan, Brera. Christ with the Woman of Canaan. Modena. Museum. Flora. ,, „ Galatea. ,, „ The Assumption. Paris. Lo'ivre. The Annunciation. „ „ Virgin and Child. „ „ Pieta. „ „ Appearance of the Virgin to St. Hyacinthe. Rome. Luna Pal. Ecce Homo. London. 2at. Gal. Susannah and the Elders. By Lodovico Carracci we have a few engravings from his own designs ; they are etched in a free and masterly style, and finished with the graver. He generally marked his plates with the initials L. C or LO. C We hare by him the following; Samson overcoming the Lion ; L. C. F.
The Virgin and Infant Jesus, with four Angels, half- length. The Virgin suckling the Infant Jesus, half-length ; lod. Carr. in. f. rhe Holy Family, with the Virgin washing Linen ; L. (J.J.
Another Holy Family ; 1604. Another Holy Family under an Arch. The Frontispiece to the Poems of Ces.ire Einaldi. A Thesis, with the Arms of Bonfigliuoli, with Mercury and Hercules.
CARRACCL II Gobbo de'. See Bonzi.
CARRACCINO, II. See Mitlinari, Giov. Ant.
CARRACCIOLO. See Caracciolo.
CARRARI, Baldassare, was a native of Ravenna, who flourished about the year 1512. Lanzi places him amongst the pupils of Niccol6 Ron- dinello, and considers that his principal and most celebrated production is his picture of ' St. Bar- tholomew,' in the church of San Domenico at Ravenna. When Pope Julius II. visited that city in 1511, he declared that the altars of Rome did not possess a finer painting than that work. A ' Ma- donna and Child with Saints by him, in the Brera, Milan, originally hung in San Domenico, Ravenna.
CARRE FAMILY.
Franciscus (1630 i?!— 16(39). L , Hendrlk (165S— 1721). Michiel (166*-ir2S). I Abraham (1604— 1758-09). Hendrik (1696— 1775). Johannes (1698— 1772).
CARRE, Abraham, was the son of Hendrik Carr^, and was born at the Hague in 1694, and died there in 1758 or 1759. He painted small por- traits and cabinet pictures, and was an excellent copyist of the works of the more distinguished Dutch masters, in which occupation he was much employed by the dealers, who sold his copies as originals. Two of his brothers, Hendrik Carre, who was born at the Hague in 1696 and died there in 1775, and Johannes, who was born at the Hague in 1698 and died there in 1772, were also painters, though but little is known of them.
CARRE, Franciscds, was a painter born in Fries- land about 1630. It is not known who was his in- structor, but he grew to be sufficiently esteemed to be appointed first painter to the Stadtholder WilHam Frederick. He excelled in painting landscapes and village festivals, but his works are little known out of his own country. He left an etching of the funeral catafalque of the Stadtholder. He died at Amsterdam in 1669.
CARRE, Hendrik, was the elder son of Fran- ciscus Carr^j and was born at Amsterdam in 1668. After studying the art under Juriaen Jacob.sz and Jacob Jordaens for some time, the Princess of Orange gave him a commission in her regiment, and he served some years in the army, being present at the siege of Groningen in 1672. He afterwards resumed painting at Amsterdam with much success. Examples of his work, which is in the style of Berchem, can be seen in the Chfiteau of Ryswick and in the Gallery at Brunswick. He died in 1721.
CARRE, Michiel, was born at Amsterdam in 1666. He received his first instructions from his elder brother Hendrik Carr^, and afterwards became the scholar of Nicolaas Berchem, but unfortunately did not profit by the example and practice of so excel- lent a master, but preferred to follow the style of a much inferior artist named Gabriel van der Leeuw. Houbraken states that Michiel Carre resided some time in England, and that his works were not popu- lar here, but Horace Walpole makes no mention of him in his ' Anecdotes.' He was a landscape painter of some celebrity, since at the death of Abraham Begeyn he was invited to Berlin by the
King of Prussia, who appointed him one of his
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