Annibale Carracci  Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism. Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades. Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood was first apprenticed within his family. In 1582, Annibale, his brother Agostino and his cousin Ludovico Carracci opened a painters' studio, initially called by some the "Academy of the Desiderosi" (desirous of fame and learning) and subsequently the "Incamminati" (progressives; literally "of those opening a new way"). While the Carraccis laid emphasis on the typically Florentine linear draftsmanship, as exemplified by Raphael and Andrea del Sarto, their interest in the glimmering colours and mistier edges of objects derived from the Venetian painters, notably the works of Venetian oil painter Titian, which Annibale and Agostino studied during their travels around Italy in 1580–81 at the behest of the elder Caracci Lodovico. This eclecticism was to become the defining trait of the artists of the Baroque Emilian or Bolognese School. In many early Bolognese works by the Carraccis, it is difficult to distinguish the individual contributions made by each. For example, the frescoes on the story of "Jason" for Palazzo Fava in Bologna (c. 1583–84) are signed "Carracci", which suggests that they all contributed. In 1585, Annibale completed an altarpiece of the "Baptism of Christ" for the church of Santi Gregorio e Siro in Bologna. In 1587, he painted the "Assumption" for the church of San Rocco in Reggio Emilia. In 1587–88, Annibale is known to have had travelled to Parma and then Venice, where he joined his brother Agostino.