Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter. This section covers all the most famous Carracci paintings from his extensive art career. Carracci pushed a “renaissance” of the great tradition of Italian painters Raphael and Michelangelo.

Carracci, as with most painters from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, was often depicting religious subjects in his works and these cover various topics such as Christ and the Virgin Mary.

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While the Carraccis laid emphasis on the typically Florentine linear draftsmanship, as exemplified by Raphael and Andrea del Sarto, their interest in the glimmering colours and mistier edges of objects derived from the Venetian painters, notably the works of Venetian Oil Painter Titian, which Annibale and Agostino studied during their travels around Italy in 1580-81 at the behest of the elder Caracci Lodovico. This eclecticism was to become the defining trait of the artists of the Baroque Emilian or Bolognese School.

The 17th century critic Giovanni Bellori, in his survey titled Idea, praised Carracci as the paragon of Italian painters, who had fostered a “renaissance” of the great tradition of Raphael and Michelangelo. On the other hand, while admitting Caravaggio's talents as a painter, Bellori deplored his over-naturalistic style, if not his turbulent morals and persona.

See below for a full list of famous Carracci oil paintings:

• Assumption of the Virgin
• The Beaneater
• Butcher's Shop
• Assumption of the Virgin Mary
• The Flight into Egypt
• The Choice of Heracles
• Domine quo vadis