Giulio Carpioni Italian, 1613-1678

Giulio Carpioni (Venice, Italy, 1613 – Vicenza, Italy, 1678)

Giulio Carpioni was born in Venice around 1613.

From 1630, he was part of Padovanino's workshop, where he explored the formal styles of courtly Venetian painting. During this time, he also experimented with Caravaggesque light as he was influenced by young artists such as Ruschi, Renieri, Saraceni and Le Clerc. The following year, he briefly moved to Bergamo to follow Padovanino, while opening up to the Lombard-Venetian realism.

After this experience, he returned to Venice where he joined the Neo-Venetian classicist movement. Probably, he immersed himself in the artistic wave following a trip to Rome when he was young. Around 1638, he married the Venetian woman Valeria Girello, and started to travel to Vicenza frequently.

Documents dated around 1642 indicate that the friars of Monte Berico, in the Vicenza area, consulted him regarding the craftsmanship of a lamp. In the following years, his activity continued throughout the territory of Venice and Vicenza. His last works dated from 1677 onwards which contradicts the theory according to which “the artist had abandoned brushes for some years” way before his death in 1678.

He also worked as an engraver, anticipating a taste resembling that of the 18th century.

The artist made his will in Vicenza in 1678, and died shortly afterwards.

Photo UniCredit Group. Phocredits: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano