Antonio Carneo: opposite direction

This essay has to subject a painter very unknown this is Antonio Carneo(1637-1692), a painter that lived in venetian land, and may he come in Rome; this hypothesis is very possible because in his paintings are present some references to Roman painter, Andrea Sacchi(Fig.1) and naturalism that he has seen perhaps in paintings of Caravaggio(Figg.2-4) also Guido Reni(Figg.5-6) and his Emilia naturalism, and we can’t forgotten Giovan Francesco Barbieri called Guercino; Italian critic of art history says that colour of Venetian has influenced painter culture of Emilia Romagna, it is true because Venetian colour has took also Emilia, but now “opposite direction” of title means that the naturalism of Carneo(Figg.7-8) is Roman and Emilian, therefore Venice has given colour to Emilia and also to Rome, but alone to some painters and little time, and Rome and Emilian have given naturalism to Venice, land that has had some moment of natural painter but little naturalist, as Bassano family, painters that used naturalism but they were alone a moment and with same subject fair and animals; more over the brush of Carneo is certainly took by Fetti, Italian painter of 17^th century from Genoa, but some posture is from Andrea Mantegna and Sacchi, the Death of Christ(Fig.9)of Mantegna has inspired certainly posture for Cleopatra, and Saint Ann(Fig10) of Sacchi has inspired posture of Lucretia(Fig.11), and to posture of Madeleine(Fig.12), he has seen posture of Saint Francis(Fig.13) of Luca Giordano in Galleria Colonna, Rome; therefore Carneo takes much models and as each painter he uses in conformity his need.

Alessandro Lusana     

Fig.1

Fig.2

Fig.3

Fig.4

Fig.5

Fig.6

Fig.7

Fig.8

Fig.9

Fig.10

Fig.11

Fig.12

Fig.13