Carlo Braccesco
1450–1501 · Italian Renaissance painter active in Liguria
Carlo Braccesco, also known as Carlo da Milano, was an Italian Renaissance painter documented in Liguria between 1478 and 1501. Most of the records bearing his name are from Genoa. His only known signed work is the Montegrazie polyptych (1478), where he signed himself Carolus Mediolanensis.
His style is essentially Lombard late Gothic, with influences from Catalan and Venetian painting, and he may have been connected to Carlo Crivelli. Between 1482 and 1484 he worked with Ambrogio de' Fiori on the stained glass and frescoes of the St Sebastian Chapel in Genoa Cathedral. In 1494 he completed a Maestà for Levanto and painted frescoes in the Nativity Chapel of Nostra Signora del Monte. In 1497 he produced six saints and a grisaille Annunciation for the organ shutters of the cathedral. His last documented commission is an Assumption of the Virgin for San Teodoro.
Many of his works have been lost. He is credited with the Annunciation triptych in the Louvre, although its attribution is disputed. His legacy is mainly regional: he helps explain late fifteenth-century painting in Liguria.
Works (3)
This panel depicts Saint Andrew the Apostle at his crucifixion, an episode tied to his martyrdom. Carlo Braccesco painted it in 1495, and it is now held in the Ca' d'Oro in Venice. As a religious painting, it focuses the viewer's attention on the saint at the moment of his death.
Where to see the work
- Ca' d'Oro Venice · 2
- Louvre Museum Paris · 1