Pietà (Annibale Carracci)

Pietà is a c.1600 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, the earliest surviving work by him on the subject, commissioned by Odoardo Farnese. It moved from Rome to Parma to Naples as part of the Farnese collection and is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples.[1]

Preparatory drawings
gollark: Ah.... the Egg Incident...
gollark: Great, another 2G prize offer. Really helping with my decision here...
gollark: _has denied it_
gollark: _considers offering on it_
gollark: If I leave it a while, are people likely to be annoyed and withdraw offers or are people used to keeping them on for a while on rare stuff?

See also
  • Pietà - other paintings and sculptures

References
  • Donald Posner, Annibale Carracci: A Study in the reform of Italian Painting around 1590, London, 1971, Vol. I, p. 110.
  • Carel Van Tuyll Van Serooskerken, in Annibale Carracci, Catalogo della mostra Bologna e Roma 2006–2007 (edited by eD. Benati and E. Riccomini), Milano, 2006, p. 378.


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