Andrea Carlone was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa

Genoa

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He was the son of the painter Giovanni Battista Carlone

Giovanni Battista Carlone

Giovanni Battista Carlone was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.Carlone was born and died in Genoa. He came from a family of artists: his father Taddeo was a sculptor and his older brother Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, a well-trained painter. He may have had some...

 and Niccoletta Scorza. He traveled and painted extensively through Italy. After initial work with his father, he traveled to Venice

Venice

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 for a few years. His first works were pictures at the church of the Gesù at Perugia

Perugia

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, and the Life of St. Felician in the church of that saint at Foligno

Foligno

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. He went afterwards to Rome

Rome

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 to the studio of Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...

. He married in Rome, with the sister of Perruchi, the personal secretary (Maggiordomo) for Marchese Costaguti. His brother Niccolò was also a painter.