Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 1) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

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ORLEANS COLLECTION.

Few collections could boast of so much riches
in any of the schools of painting, as the Orleans
could in that of Bologna, either in point of number,
or in the excellent taste with which the works of
this school had been selected.
Annibal may certainly be considered as the more
brilliant of the Caracci, not only from the variety
of his works, but from the great number of those
which he has given to the world. Although
therefore younger by some years than Ludovico,
we shall here place him first.

ANNIBAL CARACCE.

Born at Bologna in 1560.
Died in . . . 1609.—aged 49.
This eminent and most accomplished painter
received the first principles of his instruction from
his cousin Ludovico, whose own manner was grand
and sublime; he imbibed from him the ardent
desire of arriving at the utmost perfection in every
branch of the art, for which purpose he successively
studied the works of Correggio, Titian, Tintorett,
Andrea del Sarto, and Raphael, and was by these
means enabled to form that happy style for which
this school became so celebrated.