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Carlo saraceni caravaggio biography
Carlo Saraceni
Italian painter (1579–1620)
Carlo Saraceni | |
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Anonymous, Portrait of Carlo Saraceni (1616) | |
| Born | 1579 Venice |
| Died | (1620-06-16)June 16, 1620 Venice |
Carlo Saraceni (1579 – 16 June 1620) was an Italian early-Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968.[1]
Life
Though he was born and died in Venice, his paintings are distinctly Roman in style; he moved to Rome in 1598, joining the Accademia di San Luca in 1607.
He never visited France, though he spoke fluent French and had French followers and a French wardrobe. His painting, however, was influenced at first by the densely forested, luxuriantly enveloping landscape settings for human figures of Adam Elsheimer, a German painter resident in Rome; "there are few landscapes by Saraceni which have not been attributed to Elsheimer," Malcolm Waddingham observed,[2] and An