Cavallo vincitore

Annibale Carracci, The butcher's shop (1582)


Oil on canvas, 185x266 cm
Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery

The approach of Annibale Carracci towards the butcher's craft is very different from that of Guidi. Carracci was a great innovator: he was the first who decided to represent in his paintings not only religious, aristocratics or mythological themes, but common and humble life scenes, and The butcher's shop is a work bearing with the intention of representing the ordinary life, even in its violent and grotesque particulars. It is enough to look at the exposed meat, and above all at the butcher in the bottom who is keeping the goat motionless and is going to kill her, in the most violent moment of the composition.

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