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(1) Gian [Giovan] Francesco Caroto
(b Verona, c. 1480; d c. 1555). According to Vasari he was trained by Liberale da Verona, but there is no clear evidence of this in his earlier works. A chronological review of his securely attributed works reveals a series of identifiable influences including Lorenzo Costa the elder, Leonardo and his followers, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Parmigianino and Correggio. His earliest known work is a Virgin and Child (Modena, Gal. & Mus. Estense), signed and dated 1501. It recalls more readily the sculptural qualities of Francesco Bonsignori than the linear emphasis of Liberale. A fresco depicting the Annunciation (1508; Verona, S Gerolamo) retains some of this sculpted sense, but the figure types are clearly influenced by Leonardo, probably the effect of a sojourn in Milan in 1507. The Pietà (Turin, Fontana priv. col., see Franco Fiorio, fig. 17), signed and dated 1515, resembles the style of Leonardo’s Milanese followers. Lombard influence is also evident in the frescoes depicting Tobias and the canvas of Three Angels executed for the Spolverini Chapel, S Eufemia, Verona, variously dated between 1508 and 1520. A portrait of a Red-headed Youth Holding a Drawing (Verona, Castelvecchio) also belongs to this period.
Part of the Caroto family
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