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anonymous 1616 -rrb- , '' portrait of carlo saraceni '' -lrb- 16 june 1620 venice venice 1579 portrait of carlo saraceni.jpg carlo saraceni
 carlo saraceni
carlo saraceni

carlo saraceni -lrb- 1579 -- 16 june 1620 -rrb- was an italian early-baroque painter , whose reputation as a `` first-class painter of the second rank '' was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968 .
though he was born and died in venice , his paintings are distinctly roman in style ; he moved to rome in 1598 , joining the accademia di san luca in 1607 .
he never visited france , though he spoke fluent french and had french followers and a french wardrobe .
his painting , however , was influenced at first by the densely forested , luxuriantly enveloping landscape settings for human figures of adam elsheimer , a german painter resident in rome ; `` there are few landscapes by saraceni which have not been attributed to elsheimer , '' malcolm waddingham observed , and anna ottani cavina has suggested the influences may have travelled both ways .
and elsheimer 's small cabinet paintings on copper offered a format that saraceni employed in six landscape panels illustrating `` the flight of icarus '' ; in `` moses and the daughters of jethro '' when caravaggio 's notorious `` death of the virgin '' was rejected in 1606 as an altarpiece suitable for a chapel of santa maria della scala , it was saraceni who provided the acceptable substitute , which remains `` in situ '' , the only securely dated painting of his first decade in rome .
he was influenced by caravaggio 's dramatic lighting , monumental figures , naturalistic detail , and momentary action -lrb- `` illustration , right '' -rrb- , so that he is numbered among the first of the `` tenebrists '' or `` caravaggisti '' .
examples of this style can be seen in the candlelit `` judith and the head of holofernes '' .
saraceni 's style matured rapidly between 1606 and 1610 , and the next decade gave way to his fully mature works , synthesizing caravaggio and the venetians .
in 1616 -- 17 he collaborated on the frescoes for the `` sala regia '' of the palazzo del quirinale .
in 1618 he received payment for two paintings in the church of santa maria dell ` anima .
the compositional details of his fresco of `` the birth of the virgin '' in the chapel of the annunciation of the church of santa maria in aquiro are repeated in a panel on copper at the louvre -lsb- http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?action=retrouver&field_1=autr&value_1=saraceni%20carlo&number=1&grp=0&req=%28%28saraceni%20carlo%29%20%3aautr%20%29%20et%20%28%27%24filled%24%27%20%3avideo%29&usrname=nobody&usrpwd=4%24%2534p&spec=1&syn=1&imly=checked&max1=1&max2=250&max3=250&dom=all] in 1620 he returned to venice , where he died in the same year .
he was so influential on the style of an anonymous still life painter working in rome , that the man is known as `` pensionante del saraceni ''
