Giovanni Battista Carlone

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Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603 - 1684) was a Genoese painter of the Baroque era.

Born, worked, and died in Genoa. He came from a a family of artists: his father Taddeo was a sculptor and his brother Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, a painter. He may have had some training under [[Domenico Passignano (see Farquhar). He was remarkable prolific both in terms of offspring (24) and paintings and frescoes; and likely these two facts were not independent, since the sheer output strongly suggests the hands of many in his paintings. His paintings throng local churches; for example, the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato alone contains nearly 20 canvases and frescoes. However his prolixity also diluted the force of individuality in the paintings which, in style, seem to occupy an imprecise provincial talent between Mannerism and Baroque.

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• Web Gallery of Art biography
• Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 38.