Giovanni Bernardo Carlone
Illustration — Portrait of Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, from Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville's Abrégé de la Vie des plus Fameux Peintres (Summary of the Life of the Most Famous Painters), 1745. Giovanni Bernardo Carlone (1590–1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. He was born in Genoa.
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Giovanni Bernardo Carlone
Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville, Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, A Paris, Chez De Bure l'Aîné, Quay des Augustins, du côté du Pont Saint Michel, à Saint Paul, 1745. · Public domain
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- Taddeo Carlone.
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Illustration — Portrait of Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, from Antoine-Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville's Abrégé de la Vie des plus Fameux Peintres (Summary of the Life of the Most Famous Painters), 1745. Giovanni Bernardo Carlone (1590–1630) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. He was born in Genoa.
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He was the son of Taddeo Carlone, a sculptor and historical painter, who placed him under the tuition of Pietro Sorri, and he afterwards frequented the school of Domenico Passignano at Florence. He returned to Genoa was much employed there and at Rome and Florence. He assisted his younger brother, Giovanni Battista Carlone in the immense fresco work in the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato at Genoa, and was invited to Milan to paint the ceiling of the church of the Theatines, which he did not live to finish. It was completed by his brother. He died in Milan. Most of his works are in Genoa and in Liguria. • Illustration — Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Stories of the Holy Cross, fresco on the ceiling of Sant'Antonio Abate church in Milan, Italy
The authorities additionally record the headings Il Genovese, Giovanni Carlone, Giovanni Il Genovese Carlone and Giovanni Andrea Carlone. His recorded confession was Catholicism. He was the child of Taddeo Carlone.
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1584
Giovanni Bernardo Carlone born at Genoa.
1631
Giovanni Bernardo Carlone died at Milan.
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- 1.Raffaele Soprani, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Le vite de’ pittori, scultori ed architetti genovesi, Genova, 1674, p. 262
- 2.G. V. Castelnovi, La pittura nella prima metà del Seicento dall'Ansaldo a Orazio De Ferrari, in La pittura a Genova e in Liguria dal Seicento al primo Novecento, Genova 1971, p. 154.
- 3.CARLONE, Giovanni di Paola Costa Calcagno - Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 20 (1977)
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