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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Juno and Mars (modello for ceiling fresco) ca. 1650 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints (modello for ceiling fresco) ca. 1655 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Stories of the Holy Cross ca. 1630 ceiling fresco Chiesa di Sant' Antonio Abate, Milan |
"Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603-1684) was the son of Taddeo Carlone (1543-1613), a sculptor and historical painter at Genoa. Giovanni Battista, like his older brother Giovanni Bernardo (1590-1630), was educated under Domenico Passignano (1559-1638) at Florence. Together the brothers undertook large fresco projects in Genoa and elsewhere. The chief result of their united exertions is to be seen in the cathedral of the Guastato at Genoa. After the early death of Giovanni Bernardo, this work and others were completed by Giovanni Battista. Later, he accepted numerous independent commissions in Genoa and across northern Italy. Giovanni Battista is considered superior even to his brother in design and in the delicacy of his tints, with the same brilliant effect of colouring. Novel and copious in his compositions, his figures are of the most graceful contour, his heads expressive of every variety of animation and beauty, with a vagueness, lucidity, and brilliancy of colouring that astonishes and charms. The painters of this name are numerous in the Genoese School. Giovanni Battista had twenty-four children by his wife Nicoletta Scorza,and several of his sons painted."
– extracted from Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886) and Biographical Catalogue of the Principal Italian Painters by Maria Farquhar (London: John Murray, 1855)
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Finding of Moses before 1650 ceiling fresco Palazzo Agostino Spinola, Genoa |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone St Sebastian before 1684 oil on canvas Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone St Jerome ca. 1683-84 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Moses Crossing the Red Sea before 1684 oil on canvas Fondazione Federico Zeri, Bologna |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Perseus and Andromeda before 1684 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Jael and Sisera before 1684 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Tobias and the Fish before 1684 oil on canvas Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Madonna and Child with Saints ca. 1670 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Studies for Caryatids in the Capella del Doge, Genoa before 1684 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Two Ornamental Male Figures in a Pendentive before 1684 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Battista Carlone Two Ornamental Male Figures in a Pendentive before 1684 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |