Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period from the early 15th to mid 16th centuries occurring within the area of present-day Italy, which was at that time divided into many political areas. The painters of Renaissance Italy, although often attached to particular courts and with loyalties to particular towns, nonetheless wandered the length and breadth of Italy, often occupying a diplomatic status and disseminating both artistic and philosophical ideas.
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Giovanni Francesco Caroto (1480 – 1555/1558) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his native city of Verona.
He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona (1445-1526/1529), a conservative painter infused with the style of Mantegna. Caroto after a stay in Milan, began responding to the other influences from Francesco Bonsignori, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Giulio Romano; but he never lost a certain individuality and his rich Veronese color. He is perhaps best known for having trained, along with the younger Antonio Badile, the prominent Mannerist painter, Paolo Veronese, who was active mainly in Venice.Good examples of his art are in: The National Brukenthal Museum, Romania - The birth of the Virgin Mary -; the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia -Madonna and Child with St Francis and St Catherine, ca.1523-; Kress Foundation Collection -The Entombment of Christ, ca.1510-15-; Louvre Museum, Paris; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Germany; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, etc.
His works are sometimes confused with those of his brother Giovanni, who was likewise a talented painter.
* * This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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