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Accademia degli Incamminati
art academy, Italy
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founding by Carraccis
- In Lodovico Carracci
…and his cousins founded the Accademia degli Incamminati, an art school that became the most progressive and influential institution of its kind in Italy. Lodovico led this school for the next 20 years, during which time he and his cousins trained some of the leading Italian artists of the younger…
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landscape drawings
- In drawing: Landscapes
The landscape drawings of the Accademia degli Incamminati (those of Domenichino, for example) combined classical and mythological themes with heroic landscapes. The Frenchman Claude Lorrain, living in Rome, frequently worked under the open sky, creating landscape drawings with a hitherto unattained atmospheric quality. This type of cultivated and idealized landscape,…
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