Albani Francesco
Italian, 1578-1660
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a distinguished artist of the Bolognese school, deeply influenced by Annibale Carracci's classicism, who worked in Rome as well as Bologna, painting altarpieces, frescoes and and cabinet pictures. His fame rests on his idyllic landscapes and small mythological pictures,
ID: 62439 The Annunciation 62 x 47 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Albani painted many versions of this subject. One of the best is the large altarpiece in the church of San Bartolomeo in Bologna, to which this painting is closely related. Author: ALBANI, Francesco Title: The Annunciation , 1601-1650 , Italian Form: painting , religious
