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Giovanni Cariani (c. 1490–1547), also known as Giovanni Busi or Il Cariani, was an Italian painter of the high-

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and the Venetian mainland, including

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, thought to be his native city.

Overview

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His father, also Giovanni Busi, was born in Fuipiano Al Brembo which is a hamlet of San Giovanni Bianco (Bergamo), and was appointed a local magistrate for the Venetian authorities. His son, also born in Fuipiano Al Brembo, is known to have lived in

starting in 1509, and may have trained with either

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, and almost certainly was influenced by them. Though he worked often in Bergamo, he died in Venice in 1547. He was strongly influenced by Palma il Vecchio, but had a provincial love of scenery as seen in his '' Sacra conversazione with a youthful donor''. While working in Bergamo (1517–1523), he likely overlapped with

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, who worked there from 1513-1525.

''Cariani and the Courtesans''

The 1987

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television play '' Cariani and the Courtesans'', written and directed by Leslie Megahey, presented a fictionalised account of the painter's time in Venice, with Cariani ( Paul McGann) interacting with other historical characters, such as Tullia d'Aragona (

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), Marcantonio Raimondi ( Simon Callow), and Francesco Albani (

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), with a brief "cameo" by

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( Frederik de Groot), and narrated by Charles Gray. The narrative is woven around the painting of a number of his works, principally ''Four Courtesans and Three Gentlemen'

Megahey had previously used the same narrative device on the 1979 production '' Schalcken the Painter''.

Partial anthology of works

* '' The Lute Player'' (c. 1514-1516) - Musee des Beaux Arts de Strasbourg * ''Conversation between young woman and old man'' (1516) -

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, St. Petersburg

* ''Resurrection of Christ with two Donors'' (1520) - Pinacoteca di Brera,

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. * ''Pala di San Gottardo'' (1523) - Pinacoteca di Brera,

. * ''Madonna Cucitrice'' (1525–28) - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica,

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. * ''Finding the True Cross'' (1530) -

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. * ''Lovers in a Landscape'' (1530) - Palazzo Venezia * ''Lady Portrait'' (1530) - White Palace,

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* ''A Concert'' (1518–20) - National Gallery of Art, Washington D

* ''Sacra Conversazione with a Youthful Donor'' (1640) - National Gallery, Londo

* ''Saint Agata'' (1516) - National Gallery, Ottawa, Canad

* Portrait (1517) - National Gallery, Londo

References

* * "Some Venetian Portraits in English Possession," Herbert Cook, ''The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs'' (1906) page 343-344.

External links

Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Cariani (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cariani, Giovanni 1490s births 1547 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Bergamo Italian Renaissance painters