Marcantonio Chiarini was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-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. Born near Bologna

Bologna

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, he trained with Francesco Quaino and Domenico Santi. He painted scenography for plays as well as quadratura in which Sigismondo Caula

Sigismondo Caula

Sigismondo Caula was born at Modena in 1637. He was the pupil of Jean Boulanger, but finished his studies at Venice, from the works of Titian and Tintoretto. Besides his altar-pieces, he painted cabinet pictures for private collections. His best production was his large picture of 'St...

 inserted figures. Active in Bologna and Milan

Milan

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, he also painted the quadratura of the Palazzo Mansi in Lucca

Lucca

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, for which Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period....

 painted the main frescoes. Chiarini was employed by the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt

Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt

Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt was an Italian-trained Austrian architect who designed many stately buildings and churches...

 in the fresco decoration of the upper and lower Belvedere

Belvedere (palace)

The Belvedere is a historical building complex in Vienna, Austria, consisting of two Baroque palaces the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the 3rd district of the city, south-east of its centre. It houses the...

 palaces near Vienna

Vienna

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, work shared with Martino Altomonte

Martino Altomonte

Martino Altomonte, born Johann Martin Hohenberg was an Italian Baroque painter of Austrian descent who mainly worked in Poland and Austria.-Life and work:...

, Gaetano Fanti, and Carlo Carlone.