An Allegory of Truth and Time

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An Allegory of Truth and Time

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An Allegory of Truth and Time is a 1584–85 oil on canvas painting by Annibale Carracci, now on display in Hampton Court as part of the Royal Collection.^[1]

It is not mentioned in any of the 17th-century biographical sources on Carracci's life and it is thought to have been in England by the early 18th century at the latest. The first definite reference to it dates to the mid 19th century, by which time it was in Queen Victoria's collection^[2] and thought to be by an unknown artist. Roberto Longhi and Hermann Voss assigned it its present attribution in the early 20th century.^{[citation needed]}

Its style is very close to that of the artist's work on the Lives of Jason and Medea frescoes at the Palazzo Fava in Bologna, produced around 1584 with his relations Agostino Carracci and Ludovico Carracci.^[3] For this reason it is sometimes argued that the canvas was commissioned by that palazzo's owner, Filippo Fava.^[2] Its style and composition are both close to a drawing for a Judgement of Paris (Fogg Art Museum), argued by some art historians to have been produced by Carracci as a preparatory for a lost or never-executed painting.^[4]

Iconography

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Influences

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One of the masterpieces of the painter's youth,^[2] it reflects his reaction to Correggio's style, a reaction which marked his paintings immediately after entering the art scene.^[3] Some argue that in this work that reaction is also filtered through the work of Federico Barocci.^[3]

Gallery

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Annibale, Agostino and Ludovico Carracci, Lives of Jason and Medea, circa 1584, fresco, Palazzo Fava, Bologna
Federico Barocci, Martyrdom of Saint Vitalis, 1583, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, circa 1515, Galleria Borghese, Rome

References

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^ "Explore the Royal Collection Online". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
^ ^a ^b ^c (in Italian) Daniele Benati, in Annibale Carracci, Catalogo della mostra Bologna e Roma 2006-2007, Milano, 2006, p. 164.
^ ^a ^b ^c Donald Posner, Annibale Carracci: A Study in the reform of Italian Painting around 1590, London, 1971, Vol. I, p. 29.
^ Donald Posner, Annibale Carracci: A Study in the reform of Italian Painting around 1590, London, 1971, Vol. II., N. 19, pp. 10-11.

Annibale Carracci

Paintings

List of paintings
The Laughing Youth (1580s)
The Beaneater (1580–1590)
Butcher's Shop (1583)
Crucifixion with Saints (1583)
Corpse of Christ (1583–1585)
An Allegory of Truth and Time (1584–1585)
Baptism of Christ (1585)
Pietà with Saints Clare, Francis and Mary Magdalene (1585)
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (c. 1585)
The Vision of Saint Eustace (1585–1586)
Two Children Teasing a Cat (1587–1588)
Madonna and Child with Saints (1588)
Venus with a Satyr and Two Cupids (1588–1590)
Lamentation (1587–1590)
Self-Portrait in Profile (1590s)
Assumption of the Virgin (Madrid; 1590)
The Virgin Appears to Saint Luke and Saint Catherine (1592)
Self-Portrait (1593)
Madonna and Child with Saints (1593)
Resurrection (1593)
Madonna and Child in Glory over the City of Bologna (c. 1593)
Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1593–1594)
Saint Roch Giving Alms (1587–1595)
Fishing (before 1595)
Hunting (before 1595)
River Landscape (c. 1590)
Christ and the Canaanite Woman (1594–1595)
Entombment of Christ (c. 1595)
Venus, Adonis and Cupid (c. 1595)
Camerino Farnese
- The Choice of Hercules (1596)
Christ in Glory with Saints and Odoardo Farnese (c. 1597–1598)
The Death of Saint Francis (1597–1598)
Saint Margaret of Antioch (1599)
Christ Appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot (1598–1600)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (1598–1600)
Christ Crowned with Thorns (Bologna) (c. 1598–1600)
The Madonna and Sleeping Child with the Infant St John the Baptist (c. 1599–1600)
Pietà (c. 1600)
The Three Marys at the Tomb (c. 1600)
Rinaldo and Armida (c. 1601)
Assumption of the Virgin (Rome; 1600–1601)
Saint Gregory at Prayer (c. 1600–1602)
Domine quo vadis? (c. 1602)
Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints (1603)
Pietà with Two Angels (c. 1603)
Sleeping Venus (c. 1603)
Self-Portrait on an Easel (1603–1604)
The Martyrdom of St Stephen (c. 1603–1604)
Portrait of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Agucchi (1604) (disputed)
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (c. 1604)
The Dead Christ Mourned (c. 1604)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1604)
Danaë (1600–1605)
Saint Didacus of Alcalá Presenting Juan de Herrera's Son to Christ (c. 1606)
Pietà with Saint Francis and Saint Mary Magdalene (1602–1607)
The Loves of the Gods (1608)
The Birth of the Virgin (1605–1609)

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