Pietà With Saints Clare, Francis And Mary Magdalene
''Pietà with Saints Clare, Francis and Mary Magdalene'' is a 1585 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now in the Galleria nazionale di Parma. It was produced for the high altar of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, Capuchin church in Parma as one of the artist's first works outside Bologna. The commission may have been linked to the Farnese family, which had a fundamental role in the artist's future career. The family had backed the Capuchins establishing friaries in Parma and Piacenza and in the 1570s duke Ottavio Farnese assigned them the now-destroyed churches Santa Maria Maddalena in Parma and San Bernardino in Piacenza, having financed the rebuilding of both. Daniele Benati, in ''Annibale Carracci, Catalogo della mostra Bologna e Roma 2006-2007'' (a cura di D. Benati e E. Riccomini), Milano, 2006, p. 174. It was praised in all the historic sources on Annibale, such as Francesco Scannelli's ''Il microcosmo della pittura'' (1657), Carlo Cesare Malvasia's ''Felsina P ...
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Annibale Carracci Pietà Parma
Annibale is the Italian names, Italian masculine name, masculine given name and surname equivalent to Hannibal (given name), Hannibal. In English, it may refer to : Given name * Annibale Albani (1682–1751), Italian cardinal * Annibale I Bentivoglio, (died 1445), ruler of Bologna from 1443 * Annibale II Bentivoglio (died 1540), lord of Bologna in 1511–1512 * Annibale Bergonzoli (1884–1973), Italian lieutenant general * Annibale Bugnini (c.1912–1982), Roman Catholic prelate * Annibale Caccavello (1515–1595), Italian sculptor * Annibale Caro (1507–1566), Italian poet * Annibale Carracci (1560–1609), Italian painter * Annibale Ciarniello (1900–2007), one of the last surviving Italian veterans of the First World War * Annibale de Gasparis (1819–1892), Italian astronomer * Annibale della Genga (1760–1829), birth name of Pope Leo XII * Annibale di Ceccano (c.1282–1350), Italian cardinal * Annibale Fontana (1540–1587), Italian sculptor, medalist and crystal worker ...
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