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Giovanni Bernardo Carboni (12 May 1614 – 11 March 1683) (also Carbone) was an Italian painter of the

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period.

Biography

He was born in

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, near

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. He became a pupil of

Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari (1598–1669) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. A prolific easel painter who created many altarpieces, he was, together with Gioacchino Assereto and Orazio de Ferrari, one of the chie ...

and he was likely a contemporary in the studio with two other Ferrari pupils:

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and Giovanni Andrea Podesta. Other influences on his style came from trips to Venice of c. 1643–4 and 1650, his friendships with

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and

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. He best known as a

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

painter, usually in full-length or three quarters view; his portraits are mainly of aristocracy dressed in full regalia or shown amid items of their property in the manner of

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. He died at Genoa.

Bibliography

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''Portrait of aristocrat''
L'Archimede Gallery of Art, Rome * ''Madonna con il Bambino dormiente'' Museo Palazzo Rosso, Geno

* ttp://www.artnet.com/library/01/0139/T013972.asp Artnet biographyfrom ''Grove Encyclopedia of Art'' * Domenico Sedini
Giovanni Bernardo Carbone
online catalogu
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