The Beaneater is a painting by the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 painter Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early career:Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family...

. Dating from 1580-1590 (probably 1583-1585), it is housed in the Galleria Colonna of Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

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The painting is connected to the contemporary Butcher's Shop

Butcher's Shop (Annibale Carracci)

The Butcher's Shop is a painting by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. Dating from the 1580s , it is in the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford....

(now at Oxford), for it shares the same popularesque style. Carracci was influenced in the depiction of everyday life subjects by Vincenzo Campi

Vincenzo Campi

Vincenzo Campi was an Italian painter of the Renaissance from Cremona.His style merges Lombard with Mannerist styles, however, unlike his siblings, he is known for a series of canvases, mostly painted after 1570s , displaying genre scenes and local produce. Many set at a food store front of some...

 and Bartolomeo Passarotti

Bartolomeo Passarotti

Bartolomeo Passarotti was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, who worked mainly in his native Bologna.He traveled to Rome in the mid-16th century, where he worked under Girolamo Vignola and Taddeo Zuccari. Upon returning to Bologna, he accumulated a large studio, and influenced many...

. Manifest is Carracci's capability to adapt his style, making it "lower" when concerning "lower" subjects like the Mangiafagioli, while in his more academic works (such as the grossly contemporary Assumption of the Virgin

Assumption of the Virgin (Carracci)

Two paintings by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci take as their subject the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.-The Prado painting:The first canvas was completed in 1590 and is now the Museo del Prado in Madrid.-The Rome painting:...

) he was able to use a more classicist composure with the same easiness.