Battesimo di Cristo
c. 1603
on displayAnnibale Carracci1560 Bologna – 1609 Rom
We have 1 artwork by Annibale Carracci online.
We have 1734 paintings online.
We have 1734 paintings online.
Annibale Carracci, with Caravaggio the most innovative painter at the birth of baroque painting, painted the theme (Matthew, III, 13-17) already in 1585 for S. Gregorio in Bologna, with michelangelesque figures. Of particular interest is the comparison with Domenichino's simultaneously created 'Landscape with the Baptism of Christ' (inv. KS 52) with a similar arrangement of Christ and John, seen from the opposite direction.
An old copy of Carracci's Invention, without the tree on the right, is in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin (oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm).
Also known as
Taufe Christi
The Baptism of Christ
Le baptême du Christ
Medium
Oil on copper
Dimensions
image: 52 x 39.5 cm
Inventory number
2004/0010
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by S. E. Karim Khan, with additional funding by the Holenia Trust in memory of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 2004