Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (*August 16, 1557, in Bologna, †March 22, 1602, in Parma) was an Italian painter and graphical artist. He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the competing school to the more gritty (for lack of a better term) view of nature as expressed by Caravaggio.
... "In all things I sought quiet and found
it not save in retirement and in books." A
monument was dedicated to his memory in the presence
of the archbishop of ...