Saint Jerome Surrounded by Mourners - Agostino Carracci
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An etching by Agostino Carracci depicts Saint Jerome, a Doctor of the Church, surrounded by mourners. The composition features fine, detailed lines that create depth and texture.
This etching by Agostino Carracci depicts Saint Jerome, a Doctor of the Church, surrounded by a group of mourners. Carracci, an Italian painter, printmaker, and art theorist, was a central figure in the development of the Bolognese School of painting, which sought to revive classical ideals in art. He was the brother of Annibale Carracci and cousin of Ludovico Carracci; together, they founded an art academy called the Accademia degli Incamminati. The print shows Saint Jerome kneeling at the centre, his body emaciated, while other figures express grief and contemplation. Above, angels float within an arched opening. The composition is characterised by fine, detailed lines that create a sense of depth and texture. The use of hatching and cross-hatching adds tonal variation to the scene. The skull in the lower left serves as a memento mori, a reminder of mortality, a common motif in depictions of Saint Jerome.
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Saint Jerome Surrounded by Mourners - Agostino Carracci
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Artist Biography
Agostino Carracci
His masterpiece as a painter, The Last Communion of Saint Jerome (1592), hangs in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. The composition is controlled and deeply felt, with the dying saint receiving the sacrament in a soft, Correggesque light that reveals Agostino's careful study of the Parma master. He also contributed to major fresco cycles at Palazzo Fava (1584, Lives of Jason and Medea) and Palazzo Magnani (1590-92, Scenes from the Foundation of Rome), working alongside Annibale on both.
The engraving work that critics sometimes dismissed as mere reproduction turns out to have had an unexpectedly long legacy. His print after Paolo Fiammingo's Love in the Golden Age is recorded as a direct source for Matisse's Le bonheur de vivre (1905-06), connecting a Bologna workshop of the 1580s to Fauvist Paris three centuries later. Agostino died in Parma in March 1602, at forty-four, leaving a son, Antonio, who also became a painter.
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