Giulio Carpioni

Training under Alessandro Varotari is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice, Vicenza and Padua. Works named in the authority record are A Sleeping Nymph with a Satyr and The Music Lesson of Pan. Work by Giulio Carpioni is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Nationalmuseum.

Born probably in Venice, Carpioni studied under Alessandro Varotari (il Padovanino) and was also influenced by the work of Simone Cantarini, Carlo Saraceni and Jean Leclerc. He came into contact with Lombard art after a brief visit to Bergamo in 1631. In 1638, he settled in Vicenza and executed most of his work there.

He painted history and bacchanals, and also sacred subjects of a small size, many of which are to be seen in the churches in the Venetian states. Paintings by him may be seen in the Galleries of Augsburg, Dresden, Vienna, Modena, and Florence. He was also an etcher; his best plates being St. Anthony of Padua, Christ on the Mount of Olives, The Virgin reading, and The Virgin with Rosary. He died at Verona. Carlo Carpioni, his son, was also a painter. • Illustration — Smell, collaboration with Francesco Caldei Among his important works are the Apotheosis of the Dolfin family (1647) and the Allegory of the Grimani Family (1651), and altarpiece of Sant'Antonio da Padova, a Virgin and two saints, and a Triumph of Silenus in the Gallerie dell'Accademia of Venice. He painted a series of canvases for the Oratory of San Nicola da Tolentino in Vicenza. It is believed that he collaborated with other painters such as Francesco Caldei who added still life elements or animals in his compositions. An example is the pair of allegories of Touch and Smell (private collection) in which Caldei painted the flowers in an urn and Carpioni painted the rest.

• Crucifixion (1648, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice). • Apollo and Marsyas (Private Collection). • Neptune Pursuing Coronis (Uffizi Gallery, Florence) • Liriope bringing Narcissus before Tiresias (Private Collection) • Banquet of the Gods (attributed, Querini-Stampalia Gallery, Venice