Kaspar Anton von Baroni-Cavalcabo (1682 in

Sacco di Rovereto Rovereto (; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: ''Roveredo'') is a city and ''comune'' in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River. History Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier ...

– 1759 in

Rovereto Rovereto (; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: ''Roveredo'') is a city and ''comune'' in Trentino in northern Italy, located in the Vallagarina valley of the Adige River. History Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the fronti ...

) or Gaspare Antonio Cavalcabò Baroni was an Italian painter in a late

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period and style. During the greater part of his life he lived in Sacco, where he died. Many of his drawings are in the Library at

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Biography

He initially studied with his cousin Giovanni Baroni, then moved to

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to work under

Antonio Balestra Antonio Balestra (12 August 1666 – 21 April 1740) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. Biography Born in Verona, he first apprenticed there with Giovanni Zeffio. By 1690 he moved to Venice, where he worked for three years under Anto ...

then after a spell in Venice, to Rome to work under

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (18 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian Baroque painter and Drawing, draughtsman, active principallly in Rome where he was the leading painter in the second half of the 17th century. He was a fresco and canvas painte ...

. At the age of 26, after the death of his father, he returned to

, where he mainly painted religious canvases for the churches of Sacco, Trent, and

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. Among his works are a ''San Francesco di Paola'' for the church of the Annuziata in

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin language, Ladin and ; ; ; ; ; ), also known in English as Trent, is a city on the Adige, Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the Trentino, autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th ...

; paintings of ''

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'', ''Elias'' and ''Eliseo'' for the church of the Carmine in Rovereto, a ''Cenacolo'' for the church of Lauretana, frescoes for a church in

, and also for the Villa Lagarinea, where he painted the ''Stairway of Jacob''.

Filippo De Boni Filippo is an Italian male given name, which is the equivalent of the English name Philip, from the Greek ''Philippos'', meaning "horse lover".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Philip" Retrieved on 23 January 2016. The female variant is Filippa. Th ...

describes him as ''having all the defects of Balestra with none of the talents, yet has a fame of a good painter.''Emporeo biografico metodico, ovvero Biografia Universale
Volume 10, By Filippo De Boni, Page 202.

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