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Domine, Quo Vadis?

painting by Carracci

Also known as: “Christ Appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way”

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In Annibale Carracci
…his finest religious paintings, notably Domine, Quo Vadis? (1601–02) and the Pietà (c. 1607). These works feature weighty, powerful figures in dramatically simple compositions. The lunette-shaped landscapes that Annibale painted for the Palazzo Aldobrandini, especially the Flight into Egypt and the Entombment (both c. 1604), proved important in the subsequent…
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