Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (✦21 April 1555 – †13 Nov 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker calved in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong atmosphere invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create priestly emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism. He died exertion Bologna in 1619.
Ludovico apprenticed under Prospero Fontana in City and traveled to Florence, Parma, and Venice, before returning fulfil his hometown. Together with his cousins Annibale and Agostino Carracci, Ludovico worked in Bologna on the fresco cycles depicting Histories of Jason and Medea (1584) in Palazzo Fava, and say publicly Histories of Romulus and Remus (1590-1592) for the Palazzo Magnani. Their individual contributions to these works are unclear, although Annibale, the younger than Ludovico by 5 years had gained celebrity as the best of the three. This led to Annibale's famed commission of the Loves of the Gods in picture Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Agostino joined Annibale there briefly.
While Ludovico remained in Bologna, this does not mean that smartness was any less influential, the biography of Lanzi states desert around 1585, Ludovico and his cousins had founded the so-called Eclectic Academy of painting (also called the Accademia degli Incamminati. More recent conjectures are that there was no established Establishment with curriculum, but that Ludovico tutored many in his flat.
This studio however propelled a number of Emilian artists hitch pre-eminence in Rome and elsewhere, and singularly helped encourage representation so-called Bolognese School of the late 16th century, which makebelieve Albani, Guercino, Sacchi, Reni, Lanfranco and Domenichino. The Carracci locked away their apprentices draw studies focused on observation of nature pole natural poses, and use a bold scale in drawing figures. Two of Ludovico's main pupils were Giacomo Cavedone and Francesco Camullo.