Giovanni Andrea Carlone - Aurora (The Dawn) - WGA04246

Andrea Carlone (16 May 1626 – 4 April 1697) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active mainly in his natal city of

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. He was the son of the painter

Giovanni Battista Carlone Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603–1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. Biography Carlone was born and died in Genoa. He came from a family of artists: his father Taddeo, uncle, and cousins were sculptors ...

and Niccoletta Scorza. He traveled and painted extensively through Italy. After initial work with his father, he traveled to

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for a few years. His first works were pictures at the church of the Gesù at

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, and the ''Life of St. Felician'' in the church of that saint at

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. He went afterwards to

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to the studio of

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

. He married in Rome, with the sister of Perruchi, the personal secretary (Maggiordomo) for Marchese Costaguti. His brother Niccolò was also a painter.

Works

*''Life of St. Felician'', San Feliciano (St. Felician) church, Foligno *''The Glory of St. Francis Borgia'' *''Aurora (The Dawn)'' (1678), National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana

References

* * 1626 births 1697 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Genoa Italian Baroque painters Pupils of Carlo Maratta {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub