Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom

Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom

Francesco Brizio

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title page by Francesco Brizio after a design by Ludovico Carracci from a quarto volume containing a description of the memorial service for the painter Agostino Carracci written by Vittorio Benacci, and seven plates by Guido Reni that illustrate the temporary decorations of the service (see 51.501.4891-4893), held on January 18, 1603 in the Church of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Morte in Bologna.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottomTitle page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottomTitle page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottomTitle page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottomTitle page to IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTIN CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno; title inside a cartouche with a globe and stars at top and a grotesque mask at bottom

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