Hilly Landscape with Three Figures, 1675?1749, Red chalk, 11-1/4 x 16-15/16 in. (28. 6 x 43 cm), Drawings, Aureliano Milani (Italian, Bologna 1675?1749 Bologna), Like his compatriot and exact contemporary Donato Creti the painter, draftsman, and engraver Aureliano Milani comes at the end of the Carracci tradition that held sway in Bologna for over a century. A distant relation of the Carracci, Milani in fact considered the revival of their style his personal artistic mission, to which end he assiduously studied their important Bolognese fresco cycles and made copies of their paintings