Baldassare Carrari - The Holy Family with an Angel - Walters 37546

Baldassare Carrari (c.1460 in

Forlì Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna. The city is situated along the Via E ...

– 14 February 1516) or Baldassarre Carrari il Giovane was an Italian painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

period, active in both his native

and

Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the cap ...

from 1486 till his death in his town of birth. He was a pupil of the painter Niccolò Rondinelli. He was son of a Matteo, but a relative of

Baldassarre Carrari il Vecchio Baldassarre Carrari the Elder (il Vecchio) was an Italian painter who worked at Forlì about the year 1354. Biography He is supposed to be the author of a fragment of a series of paintings which once adorned the Santa Maria in Schiavonia church. ...

(Baldassarre Carrari the Elder). Corrado Ricci considered him a distant follower of

Melozzo da Forlì Melozzo da Forlì (c. 1438 – 8 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. He was the most important member of the Forlì painting school. Biography M ...

(died 1494 in Rome, perhaps through contacts with Melozzo's pupil,

Marco Palmezzano Marco Palmezzano (1460–1539) was an Italian painter and architect, belonging to the Forlì painting school, who painted in a style recalling earlier Northern Renaissance models. He was mostly active near Forlì. Biography Palmezzano was b ...

, but also painting with a style influenced by

Lorenzo Costa Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 5 March 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Biography He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and was probably influenced by the Bolognese School. However, many artists worked i ...

and

Niccolo Rondinelli Niccolò Rondinelli (c. 1468 – c. 1520) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Ravenna, where he was born. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini. Also called ''Nicolo'' or ''Niccoló Rondinello''. Among hi ...

of Ravenna.Art in Northern Italy
by Corrado Ricci; editor: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1911); page 317.

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* *The Borghese and Doria-Pamfili galleries in Rome, By Giovanni Morelli, page 265. People from Forlì 1460s births 1516 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters Painters from Ferrara {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub