Name Carlo Tavella | Died 1738, Genoa, Italy | |
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Carlo Antonio Tavella (1668–1738) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.
Biography
Tavella was born in Milan to a Genoese merchant, Domenico, and died in Genoa. He was initially the pupil of the painter Giuseppe Merati, then later of a painter by the name of Johann Gruembroech or Greuenbrech, also called il Solfarolo. Later in 1695, Tavella worked in the studio with the Dutch painter Pieter Mulier II (Molyn) called Cavalieri Tempesta or il Tempesta. Worked as a landscape painter for Alessandro Magnasco and Domenico and Paolo Piola. He helped decorate the Palazzo Franchi. Tavella had daughters by of the name of Teresa and Angiola (who was herself a painter). Among his other pupils was Niccolo Micone, known locally as Lo Zoppo.