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Sleeping Venus
- Localisation : The Gallery of Painting
- Année de création :1602
- Artiste :Annibale Carracci
Description
Annibale Carracci, who was responsible for a renewal in painting in Rome, was the most prolific and the most successful of the Carracci. Together with his brother Agostino and his cousin, Ludovico, he founded a school for artists in Bologna. This institution trained a new generation of painters that thrived in Rome, with commissions from the Pope and his entourage. With the décor of the Palazzo Farnese, firstly Annibale and then Agostino, proposed a new pictorial language, inspired by the Renaissance, but going beyond mannerism, which they countered by a more classic monumentality, combined with vitality and sensual energy. This is the vein in which Sleeping Venus was painted in 1602, also for the Farnese. The composition depicts little putti frolicking around Venus. The Master’s school, which was highly active, probably participated in painting this canvas, inspired by that of Titian, but also revealing Raphaelesque influences.
