Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603-1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English
Carlone was born and died in Genoa. He came from a a family of artists: his father Taddeo was a sculptor and his older brother Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, a well-trained painter. Taddeo Carlone (died 1613 was a Swiss - Italian sculptor and architect Giovanni Bernardo Carlone (1590-1630 was an Italian painter of the late- Mannerist and early- Baroque periods He may have had some training under Domenico Passignano[1]. Domenico Passignano (born Cresti or Crespi (1559 - 1636 was an Italian painter of a late- Renaissance or Contra- Maniera style that emerged in He was remarkably prolific both in terms of offspring (24 children) and paintings and frescoes; and likely these two facts were not independent, since the sheer output strongly suggests the hands of many in his paintings. His paintings throng local churches; for example, the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato alone contains nearly 20 canvases and frescoes. The Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato is a prominent church in Genoa; its decoration employed the major Baroque studios and artists in Genoa in the However his prolixity also diluted the force of individuality in the paintings which, in style, seem to occupy an imprecise provincial talent between Mannerism and Baroque. Mannerism is a period of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc His son, Andrea Carlone was a painter. Andrea Carlone ( 1626 - 4 April 1697) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in his natal city of Genoa
In the middle and principal nave of the Vastato, he has represented the Adoration of the Magi; the Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem; the Resurrection; the Ascension ; the Descent of the Holy Ghost; and the Assumption of the Virgin '. In the same church he painted The Presentation in the Templeand Christ preaching to the Pharisees.
References
- ^ see Farquhar
- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, pages 233-234.
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 38.
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