Annibale Carracci's Venus, Adonis & Cupid

Annibale Carracci was the great genius of early Baroque painting in Italy, blighted by melancholia at the end of his life but full of promise and invention in his prime. This book concentrates on one of his most ambitious early works, painted in Bologna, the Venus, Adonis and Cupid in the Prado Museum, Madrid. This is the English edition of a Prado publication specially dedicated to this painting, which has recently been cleaned and restored. The subject, which is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, was regarded in the Renaissance period as offering the greatest possible scope for a painter's brush - a male and a female nude, strong emotion, pathos, heroism-and, since Adonis was a hunter, dogs as well. This book reveals important new information about Annibale Carracci, technically, creatively, and stylistically.Maria Alvarez-Garcillan Morales is the author of 'Annibale Carracci's Venus, Adonis & Cupid', published 2005 under ISBN 9781903470404 and ISBN 1903470404.