Károly Markó, also known as Carlo Marco or Markó the Younger ( Pest, January 22, 1822 –

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, 1891), was a Hungarian-Italian painter, mainly of landscapes. Carlo's father,

Károly Markó the Elder Károly Markó, also known as Carlo Marco (25 September 1791,
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, where he pursued his studies. Later, he was joined there by his brothers, András and

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. Among his works are depictions of the Valle di Quesa near the countryside by

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. While he was close with many of the Macchiaoli painters, his style seems to recall that of the Baroque painter

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as well as painters of the School of Posillipo. Among his works are: ''La Brigata del Boccaccio''; ''Veduta di Bella Riva''; ''Le cave di Carrara''; ''Paese in Corsica''; ''I dintorni di Gaville''; and ''Lungo l ' Arno''. Some of his works, such as ''Christ in Emmaus'' and ''The Samaritan at the Well'' have figures in the scene dwarfed by the landscape, although the landscape itself commented on the events. Some of his works are on display in the

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. He was Professor of the

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, as well as in Genoa, Perugia, and Urbino. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 279. Among his pupils were

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, and

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. He later moved to Russia, possibly with a promise of employment (as Italian painters were very much in vogue there at the time) and died in Moscow.

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