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Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (1555 – 1619)

• Was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker.
• Carracci was born in Bologna.
• Ludovico apprenticed under Prospero Fontana in Bologna.
• He traveled to Florence, Parma, and Venice, before returning to his hometown.
• Together with his cousins Annibale and Agostino Carracci, Ludovico worked in Bologna on the fresco cycles depicting Histories of Jason and Medea in Palazzo Fava.
• Ludovico and his cousins had founded the so-called Eclectic Academy of painting.
• One of Ludovico's main pupils was Giacomo Cavedone and Francesco Camullo.
• He died in Bologna in 1619.
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