McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Caroli, Pietro Francesco

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Caroli, Pietro Francesco


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a Piedmontese painter, was born at Turin in 1638. He studied architecture, geometry, and perspective; and visited Venice, Florence, and Rome, where his merit gained him admission to the Academy of St. Luke, of which he became professor. His subjects were the interior views of churches. He died at Rome in 1716. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, s.v.