Giovanni Bernardo Carboni

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Giovanni Bernardo Carboni (12 May 1614 – 11 March 1683) (also Carbone) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Biography[]

He was born in Albaro, near Genoa. He became a pupil of Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari and he was likely a contemporary in the studio with two other Ferrari pupils: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and . Other influences on his style came from trips to Venice of c. 1643–4 and 1650, his friendships with Valerio Castello and , as well as the contact with his prolific brother and painter, Giovanni Battista Carlone.

He best known as a portrait painter, usually in full-length or three quarters view; his portraits are mainly of aristocracy dressed in full regalia or shown amid items of their property in the manner of Anthony van Dyck. He died at Genoa.

Bibliography[]

  • Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. I: A-K. York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 231.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Portrait of aristocrat, L'Archimede Gallery of Art, Rome
  • Madonna con il Bambino dormiente Museo Palazzo Rosso, Genoa [1]
  • Artnet biography from Grove Encyclopedia of Art
  • Domenico Sedini, Giovanni Bernardo Carbone, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA.

Other projects[]

Media related to Giovanni Bernardo Carbone at Wikimedia Commons


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