Giovanni Francesco Caroto (1480 – 1555 or 1558) was an Italian painter of the

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active mainly in his native city of

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. He initially apprenticed under

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(1445–1526/1529), a conservative painter infused with the style of Mantegna, but after a stay in Milan, Caroto began responding to the other influences from

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, and

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; but he never lost a certain individuality and his rich Veronese colour. He trained prominent

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painter

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, who was active mainly in

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, as well as

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. Examples of his art are in the Castello,

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, the Chiesa de Carità, Mantua, in the

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and

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, and in the museums of

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, etc. His works are sometimes confused with those of his brother Giovanni, who was also a painter. Both were buried in

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in Verona. Caroto's ''Portrait of a Child with a Drawing'', circa 1520, motivated the early naming of

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as ''puppet syndrome'' by

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caroto, Giovanni Francesco 1480 births 1550s deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Verona Italian Renaissance painters