CAROSELLI, ANGELO. – Painter, born in Rome on 10 February 1585, died there on 18 April 1652. Son of an antiquarian, he tempered the innovations of Caravaggism with the traditional Roman academicism of the 16th century.
He was for a long time apprenticed to the Perugian Agostino Tassi; he painted for the Quirinal Palace a St. Wenceslas, later set to music for St. Peter’s in the Vatican, a Pietà and two Prophets for the Chiesa Nuova, other canvases for S. Francesca Romana, a Guardian Angel for the cathedral of Ferrara, and a Man Singing, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. According to Passeri, he was also skilled in the restoration and cleaning of ancient paintings, for which he seems to have possessed many secrets.
BIBL.: G. B. Passeri, Vite, Rome 1772, pp. 188 ff.; F. Noack, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, VI, p. 31 (with bibliography); U. Fleres, s. V. ENOCH. Ital., IX, p. 123. Giovanni Carandente