Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman (recto); Bust-Length Study of a Girl (verso), 1557–1602, Red chalk, over possible traces of black chalk (recto); red chalk (verso), Sheet: 13 11/16 x 9 13/16 in. (34.8 x 25 cm), Drawings, Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1557–1602 Parma), Painter, engraver, and draftsman, Agostino Carracci was active in Bologna, Rome, and Parma and was a founder of the Carracci Academy in Bologna in 1582. Rejecting the extreme artifice of Mannerism, the prevailing style of painting during the late sixteenth century, the Accademia degli Incamminati ('those who are making progress'), as the Carracci Academy soon came to known, championed the study of nature and the primacy of drawing from life as central tenets of a new artistic idiom that derived its expressive capacity and emotional force from an engaging naturalism and verisimilitude
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