Orsini Carota (active 16th-century) 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

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

Biography

Born in

Assisi Assisi (, also , ; from la, Asisium) is a town and ''comune'' of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, born aroun ...

, he was a pupil of the painter

Pompeo Cocchi Pompeo Cocchi di Pier Gentile (active 1523) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active in Umbria. Biography Born in Corciano, he was a pupil of the painter Pietro Perugino. He was admitted into the guild of painters in 1523. One of h ...

. He was active in 1583.Catalogo dei quadri che si conservano nella Pinacoteca Vannucci in Perugia
by Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, (1903) page 61.

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Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Painters from Perugia Umbrian painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub