Marcantonio Chiarini (c. 1652–1730) was an Italian painter of the late-

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

period. Born near

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

, he trained with Francesco Quaino and Domenico Santi. He painted scenography for plays as well as

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other ...

in which Sigismondo Caula inserted figures. Active in Bologna and

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, he also painted the quadratura of the Palazzo Mansi in

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, for which

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an italy, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period. Upon the death of Carlo Cignani, Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painter ...

painted the main frescoes. Chiarini was employed by the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in the fresco decoration of the upper and lower Belvedere palaces near

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, work shared with Martino Altomonte, Gaetano Fanti, and

Carlo Carlone Carlo Innocenzo Carlone or Carloni (1686–1775) was an Italian painter and engraver, active especially in Germany. Biography He was a native of Alta Valle Intelvi, Scaria, near Como, in Lombardy, but may have been from the Carloni family of Ge ...

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* 1650s births 1730 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters Quadratura painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub