St Francis in Meditation

Lodovico Carracci served his apprenticeship with Prospero Fontana in Bologna and is said to have travelled to Florence , Parma , Venice , and Mantua , probably in the late 1570s. In 1582, with his cousins, the brothers Annibale and Agostino Carracci , he founded an Academy in Bologna . He is recorded in Rome in 1602 but based himself in Bologna, where his personal, visionary style remained largely independent of that practised in Rome by his cousins.