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Carbone, Giovanni Bernardo
(bapt Albaro, 12 May 1616; d Genoa, 11 March 1683). Italian painter. One of the finest though one of the least known Genoese painters, he studied with Giovanni Andrea de’ Ferrari (i) in the late 1620s, a period when he could have known Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Giovanni Andrea Podesta, who were also in the studio. His trips to Venice of c. 1643–4 and 1650, his friendships with Valerio Castello in the 1650s and with Casone and Giovanni Battista Carlone in the 1670s indicate some further influences on his work. He is chiefly known as a portrait painter who followed the manner of Anthony van Dyck closely enough to confuse clients in the 17th and 18th centuries. His earliest dated painting, a portrait of the Imperial Family (1642; Terralba, Villa Imp.; see Martinoni, fig. 3), is highly ambitious, showing the family crowded into a room with a perspective view of their villa and gardens in the background. Many of his portraits are refined depictions of full-length figures, ranging from distinguished ecclesiastics to elaborately dressed children in the manner of van Dyck, standing on balconies with highly detailed baskets of fruit (e.g. Portrait of a Child, Madrid, Prado). His splendid portrait of Paolo Gerolamo Franzone (Nîmes, Mus. B.-A.) shows the sitter full-length on the terrace of a Genoese palace, turning to receive a letter from a black servant. In its modelling and inclusion of still-life, his work relates to the portraits by Luciano Borzone; he may have derived his interest in Flemish realism from the works of Anton Maria Vassallo.
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