Annibale Carracci (Italian pronunciation: [an'ni?bale kar'ratt?i]; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome.
Along with his brothers, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of the Baroque style, borrowing from styles from both north and south of their native city, and aspiring for a return to classical monumentality, but adding a more vital dynamism.
Painters working under Annibale at the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese would be highly influential in Roman painting for decades.