Head of an Old Man

Head of an Old ManAnnibale Carracci trained in Bologna with his cousin, Lodovico Carracci, and possibly Bartolomeo Passerotti. His early works show the influence of Antonio da Correggio and the Parma school. Pictures such as this head and others from this period, however, take their cue from Venetian art.

The only distinct angel (held steady by an awesome wing-span) is painted as a simple triangular shape made up of vertical streaks

who drew her the second day after she was dead

with a light

A lost picture almost identical to this

21 May 1963

with its smell of dust and moisture

This has been confirmed by x-ray which also shows a second portrait

This painting probably dates to the late 1650s

The execution is crude and may well be British

The events around the birth and nurture of the infant Jupiter are described by four ancient Greek and Latin poets: Hesiod

Duparc suggests a date of c

was formerly in the Gemaldegalerie