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La vida y la obra de Annibale Carracci en los años posteriores a la finalización de la que fue considerada como su gran obra maestra, la decoración de la Galleria Farnese, estuvieron marcadas de forma creciente por su delicado estado de salud a causa de una enfermedad que no se ha podido precisar, combinada con una profunda melancolía. Los biógrafos y tratadistas del siglo XVII ya dejaron constancia de que en el origen de aquella melancolía pudo encontrarse la escasa recompensa financiera y afectiva que el pintor boloñés recibió de su principal comitente en Roma: el cardenal Odoardo Farnese. En el presente artículo analizamos las posibles causas de esa melancolía, que unida a su enfermedad, condicionó notablemente sus últimos años de vida., The life and work of Annibale Carracci in the years following the completion of what was considered his great masterpiece, the decoration of the Galleria Farnese, were increasingly marked by his delicate state of health due to an illness that it has not been possible to specify, combined with a deep melancholy. Biographers and treatise writers from the 17th century have already recorded that, in the origin of that melancholy, could be found the meagre financial and affective reward that the Bolognese painter received from his main patron in Rome: Cardinal Odoardo Farnese. In this article we analyse the possible causes of this melancholy, which, together with his disease, remarkably conditioned his last years of life.

L'article examine l'incidence de la culture artistique romaine sur la Pietà peinte par Charles Le Brun pour le chancelier Séguier vers 1645 et tâche d'en dégager la singularité.

The book first discusses the emergence of the genre of landscape painting, its essential principles and its position in the theoretical structure of classicism. The main part of the analysis concerns an interpretation of the paintings through the "filters" (contexts) of drama, rhetoric, utopianism and metaphysics. The painted landscapes contain elements of freedom and existential speculation, thus providing a subjective and subversive stance connecting to naturalistic solutions to problems of metaphysics.