Baroque art of Italy
Italians consider Caracci (1560-1609) and Michelangelo Caravadzio (1573-1610) as the pioneers of Baroque painting. Both of them had good relations with each other and both agreed on the idea that it was necessary to take concrete steps to free Italian art from the confusion of formalism.
But there was no similarity in the art styles of both, rather looking at the difference in their drawing methods and the individual characteristics of their depiction, it is difficult to believe that both of them were contemporary painters working in the same city.
In 1595, Cardinal Odo Ardo Farnese of Rome invited Anivale Caracchi from Bologna to decorate the gallery on the first floor of his palace.
His brother Agostino and disciples