Giovanni Francesco Caroto

Giovanni Francesco Caroto (1480 – 1555 or 1558) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance active mainly in his native city of Verona.

Portrait of a Child with a Drawing, Castelvecchio Museum

He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona (1445–1526/1529), a conservative painter infused with the style of Mantegna, but after a stay in Milan, Caroto 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 trained prominent Mannerist painter Paolo Veronese, who was active mainly in Venice, as well as Antonio Badile.

Examples of his art are in the Castello, Milan, the Chiesa de Carità, Mantua, in the Uffizi and Pitti, Florence, and in the museums of Dresden, Budapest, etc. His works are sometimes confused with those of his brother Giovanni, who was also a painter. Both were buried in Santa Maria in Organo in Verona.[1]

Caroto's "Portrait of a Child with a Drawing", circa 1520, has been described by medical professionals as a possible representation of a child with the medical disorder now known as Angelman Syndrome.[2]

Notes
  1. Zannandreis, Diego (1891). Giuseppe Biadego (ed.). Le vite dei pittori, scultori e architetti veronesi. Stabilimento Tipo-Litografico G. Franchini, Verona; Digitized by Googlebooks from University of California copy on Feb 22, 2007. pp. 66–69.
  2. Galassi FM, Armocida E, Rühli FJ (September 2016). "Angelman Syndrome in the Portrait of a Child With a Drawing by Giovanni F. Caroto" (PDF). JAMA Pediatr. 170 (9): 831. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.0581. PMID 27380555.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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