Angelo Caroselli e compagni di strada

A wide-ranging essay dedicated to the Italian painter Angelo Caroselli (1585-1652): a long story of life and art, full of intriguing events and based on careful documentary research. Caroselli’s artistic experience began with his work as a copyist in his father’s second-hand dealer’s shop. An enigmatic and complex personality, very skilled in the restoration and copies of paintings, Caroselli managed to grow the workshop and to create an important quantity of works, many still scattered on the market and still awaiting a chronological arrangement. His talent took him to Florence, to the court of Grand Duke Cosimo II de’ Medici, and subsequently to Naples, where he worked for aristocrats, merchants, bourgeois, and religious orders.