Carolino da Viterbo (active mid 1400s)

• Was an Italian painter.
• The painter is known thanks to an inscription on a panel, preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Orte.
• The inscription says: "MCCCC Carolinus de Viterbo pinxit LXXVIII".
• From this we can deduce that the painter was originally from Viterbo and that he was active around 1478.
• The stylistic analysis of Orte 's panel shows great affinity with late Gothic painting which found application in Rome locally around 1450.
• So it is assumed that Carolino da Viterbo spent a period of apprenticeship in Rome.
• In his only signed and dated panel Carolino da Viterbo paints four figures with oval faces and wide cheeks with little articulated expressiveness.
• While the physique of the figures is generally proportionate, the hands are stretched instead.
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