Annibale Carracci Introduces Painting to Apollo and Minerva, 1674, Etching and engraving, Sheet: 18 1/8 x 25 1/4 in. (46 x 64. 1 cm), Prints, Pietro Aquila (Italian, Marsala, Sicily 1650?1692/1700 Rome), After a drawing by Carlo Maratti (Italian, Camerano 1625?1713 Rome), This print appeared as a frontispiece to a book of etchings depicting the frescoes painted by Annibale Carracci in the Farnese Gallery in Rome. Like the publication of the book itself, this frontispiece was part of a concerted effort to raise the painter, active at the turn of the seventeenth century, to mythical status