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Together with Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci was the most influential painter of the seventeenth century and a key figure in the development of classicism. This picture—a pivotal work—was painted for Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini shortly after Annibale's arrival in Rome in 1595; it remained in the Aldobrandini collection until 1800. In it, Annibale has brought together two currents of Italian painting: a north Italian sensitivity to the effects of a natural-seeming light and color, and the careful spatial organization and idealized figure types associated with the High Renaissance. Raphael's "Disputà " in the Vatican inspired the hemispherical composition, while the figure of God the Father was based on a Roman sculpture. - There is a border around the image. Image size is correct. Many sizes available.
