# Sheet of caricatures [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARRACCI, Annibale]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pen and ink, 201 139 mm ## Commentary Caricature was the means by which life was breathed back into the rigid portraiture. Annibale Carracci used it, and he was followed by his brother Agostino, Domenichino, Guercino and Bernini, all in the pursuit of the expression of emotion and character. ## Related artworks - [A Sea God Abducts a Woman \(detail\)]() - [A Sea God Abducts a Woman]() - [Assumption of the Virgin Mary]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Atlante]() - [Butcher's Shop \(detail\)]() - [Butcher's Shop]() - [Ceiling fresco]() - [Ceiling fresco]() - [Ceiling fresco]() - [Cephalus and Aurora]() - [Christ and the Woman of Samaria]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()