Blinded Soldier, Detail from the Conversion of St. Paul, Study after Agostino Carracci, 1821–22 https://t.co/T74DdSdBly

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Susanna & the Elders: one of the tamer images from the Lascivie of painter Agostino Carracci, who had a successful side-line in printed porn. Today is his day.

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2/2 Hands sharpening a pen, from a pattern book for artists by Agostino Carracci, who was born on this day in 1557.

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Good morning to all of you baking on the west coast! Have a beautiful Annunciation by Agostino Carracci, who was born on this day, in Bologna, in 1557.

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St Roch and the Angel
by Annibale Carracci,1560–1609.
(The Fitzwilliam Museum) Roch, whose wound was cured by the licking of a dog, is patron of plague victims. This isn’t like early modern plagues, but it is worth recalling his cult as a memory of what our ancestors endured (BM)

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🎨 Annibale Carracci, "Mocking of Christ", 1596

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Happy Birthday to Agostino
born this day in 1557

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Annibale Carracci, Aurora

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Ludovico Carracci, Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker, died on this day in 1619.

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Los grandes siempre serán eso, grandes... "Júpiter y Juno" (1597), Annibale Carracci, Palazzo Farnese. Buenas noches!

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