Alberto Carlieri

Variant namesAlberto Carlieri

DatesBiographical dates: 1672 Dead: dead after 1720 Born: born 1672

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BiographyBiography: Alberto Carlieri was possibly of French origin and was presumably based in Rome for most of his life. He was a pupil of the architectural painter Giuseppe Marchi and of Andrea Pozzo. From Pozzo, Carlieri learned quadratura painting, and he worked as his assistant in the 1690s. Claudio Strinati has suggested that the quadratura temperas of the Sacro Cuore convent at Trinità dei Monti in Rome, which have traditionally been given to Pozzo – who was responsible for the overall conception – might be by Carlieri. For the more decorative aspects of his work, Carlieri turned to painters like Viviano and Niccolò Codazzo and Giovanni Ghisolfi. Carlieri’s general oeuvre is distinguished by architectural abundance and lively figures, an intense chiaroscuro, free brushwork and brilliance of colour, as can be seen in the Judgment of Solomon (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich).

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