Drawing Allegedly by Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-Roma 1609)brown ink, depicting Odysseus (Ulysses) who competes in the stone throwing during games Phaeacian youth. Mm 610x950. The Italian painter Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna in 1560. If in his first production they notice the influences of Bolognese painters Bartolomeo Cesi, Horace Samacchini and Prospero Fontana, once arrived in Parma studying Correggio and in Venice on the Veronese and Bassano. Determined to bring the painting o

Drawing Allegedly by Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-Roma 1609)brown ink, depicting Odysseus (Ulysses) who competes in the stone throwing during games Phaeacian youth. Mm 610x950. The Italian painter Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna in 1560. If in his first production they notice the influences of Bolognese painters Bartolomeo Cesi, Horace Samacchini and Prospero Fontana, once arrived in Parma studying Correggio and in Venice on the Veronese and Bassano. Determined to bring the painting out of the anguish of mannerism, founded in Bologna in 1582, with his brother Agostino, also a painter, the Academy of the Eager, later known as the Incamminati. The works of this period are designed according to an interpretation profoundly classical nature, mediated through the painting of the sixteenth century. Reworking various cultural influences, the Carracci comes gradually to a clear definition of its classic and naturalist ideal at the same time. Between 1582 and 1594 works, with the help of Agostino and his cousin Ludovico, the decoration of palaces Fava, Magnani and Sampieri, and performs many altarpieces for churches of Bologna. In 1595 he witnessed its presence in Rome to decorate with mythological scenes, the Palazzo Farnese Gallery. A contact with the work of Raphael and the ancient art, Agostino drew large compositions with classic simplicity and inventive freedom, pursuing a harmonious blend of natural empirical world and classical tradition. The work under examination is the episode recounted in Book VIII of the Odyssey, in which Alcinous, king of the Phoenicians, at a meeting, communicate its decision to provide to Ulysses, arrived at his palace, a ship that escort home. The king then index of the games in which they participate young Phaeacians and Odysseus himself who competes in the test launch of the stone, and with the help of Athena, ahead of all rivals. The attribution to Annibale Carracci of the test design may be confirmed by comparing it with the preparatory cartoons for the frescoes in the Farnese Gallery in Rome and painted friezes of Palazzo Fava, of certain attribution to the same author, made between 1597 and 1604. I Carracci executed many preparatory drawings for this artistic enterprise; the most important collections are kept at the Cabinets Drawings of the Uffizi, dell'Albertiana, the Louvre and Windsor Castle. Hannibal, experienced designer and refined, with exuberant imagination and extraordinary skill, alternating marble and the revival of ancient statues to life studies. The design is characterized by the bursting vitality and for the strong energy.