Giovanni Francesco Caroto (ca. 1480–ca. after 1555)

• Was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
• He was born in city of Verona.  

• He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona.

• After a stay in Milan, Caroto began responding to the other influences from Francesco Bonsignori, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Giulio Romano.

• He trained prominent Mannerist painter Paolo Veronese, who was active mainly in Venice, as well as Antonio Badile. 

• Examples of his art are in the Castello, Milan, the Chiesa de Carità, Mantua, in the Uffizi and Pitti, Florence, and in the museums of Dresden and Budapest. 

• His works are sometimes confused with those of his brother Giovanni, who was also a painter.

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