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Fictitious Funeral Monument of Annibale Carracci


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Fictitious funeral monument of Annibale Carracci; in a plinth, the portrait of Annibale Carracci, head and shoulders, looking ahead, in an oval, seen at centre, a Latin inscription below the oval; crowning the plinth, laurel leaves, two trumpets, a palette and a small painting; behind the plinth, monuments and antiquities and two figures seen to right, marvelling at the monument. The inscription reads: 'D.O.M./ ANNIBAL CARRACCIUS BONONIENSIS/HIC EST/ RAPHAELI SANCTIO URBINATI/ UT ARTE INGENIO FAMA SIC TUMULO PROXIUMUS/ PAR UTRIQUE FUNUS ET GLORIA/AQUAM VIRTUTI RAPHAEL TULIT/ANNIBAL INIQUAM/DECESSIT DIE XV IULII AN MDCCIX AT XXXXIX/CAROLUS MARATTUS SUMMI PICTORIS/NOMEN ET STUDIA COLENS P. AN MDCLXXIIII'.

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Ingenuity: Ingenium, Ingenuity: Genius, Portrait, Tombstone, Laurel, Trumpet, Palette

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The British Museum

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