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Palazzo Magnani, both in Bologna. Those schemes were all friezes, but at the Palazzo Sampieri they planned three large ceiling scenes and three large scenes over fireplaces in each room. The reasons for this choice are unknown - Astore Sampieri may have wanted something different from
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The
Palazzo Sampieri frescoes are framed by ornate stucco cornices by the sculptor Gabriele Fiorini, a faithful collaborator who had already worked with the Carracci on other projects, particularly at the Palazzo Magnani. As well as the frescoes, the three painters produced three large over-door
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The scheme was commissioned by
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None of the three artists had previous experience of the "sottinsĂą" (upside-down) technique the scheme would require, but
Annibale and Agostino had frequently seen and admired examples of it in palazzi and churches in Venice by artists such as
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Palazzo Sampieri to paint the ceilings of its last two rooms with more scenes from the life of Hercules, continuing the Carracci brothers' iconographic scheme with scenes of Hercules fighting
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Hercules strangling serpents as a baby. The latter scene was destroyed in 1876 during a failed attempt to remove it from the ceiling. Like the Carracci scenes, the works were accompanied by Latin summaries,
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Saint Didacus of Alcalá Presenting Juan de Herrera's Son to Christ
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Annibale Carracci, Catalogo della mostra Bologna e Roma 2006-2007
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Set of paintings by Annibale, Agostino and Ludovico Carracci
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The Virgin Appears to Saint Luke and Saint Catherine
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Madonna and Child in Glory over the City of Bologna
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PietĂ with Saints Clare, Francis and Mary Magdalene
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L'Ercole trionfante. I tre Carracci a Casa Sampieri
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673:The Vision of Saint Eustace
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681:Two Children Teasing a Cat
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713:Self-Portrait in Profile
93:Lives of Jason and Medea
1061:The Birth of the Virgin
1013:The Dead Christ Mourned
937:Saint Gregory at Prayer
825:Venus, Adonis and Cupid
625:Crucifixion with Saints
522:, Electa, Milano, 2006.
332:National Gallery of Art
838:The Choice of Hercules
777:Saint Roch Giving Alms
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817:Entombment of Christ
358:Hercules and Antaeus
343:Preparatory drawings
528:Eugenio Riccomini,
417:Eugenio Riccomini,
326:Annibale Carracci,
309:Agostino Carracci,
292:Annibale Carracci,
278:Appendix Vergiliana
256:Ludovico Carracci,
130:Pinacoteca di Brera
25:Metropolitan Museum
1215:(1593-1594) (with
921:Rinaldo and Armida
601:The Laughing Youth
485:Valeria Castelli,
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1079:Agostino Carracci
945:Domine quo vadis?
932:(Rome; 1600–1601)
649:Baptism of Christ
595:List of paintings
581:Annibale Carracci
68:Ludovico Carracci
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330:, 1590–95,
318:Iconography
220:Description
132:in Milan -
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1278:(frescoes)
1179:Democritus
397:References
388:Guercino,
356:Guercino,
336:Washington
202:Guido Reni
188:Agostino,
173:Ludovico,
158:Annibale,
110:Tintoretto
1240:(brother)
1182:(c. 1596)
1155:Paintings
1081:(brother)
1040:(c. 1606)
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588:Paintings
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260:(ceiling)
243:, Bologna
50:, Bologna
1246:(cousin)
1206:Frescoes
1087:(cousin)
998:disputed
996:(1604) (
544:Paragone
365:Guercino
363:In 1631
274:epyllion
266:Hercules
106:Veronese
64:Agostino
60:Annibale
29:New York
1334:Bologna
1261:Baroque
1231:Related
1072:Related
793:Hunting
785:Fishing
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604:(1580s)
370:Antaeus
276:in the
82:History
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