Quite different in mood and manner is Annibale Carracci’s The Butcher’s Shop, which was painted just five years after Passarotti’s part-comic scene. Carracci, also Bolognese, knew a lot ...

Berenson still refused to place the Carracci “among the greatest painters,” but he gave a cheer for Annibale’s Butcher Shop. Said he: “My attention is attracted by the realism that ...