CARLO, the last celebrated painter of the Roman school, was born at Camarano, near Ancona, in 1625. He went a poor boy to Rome when only eleven years of age; and at twelve recommended himself so effectually to Andrea Sacchi by his drawings after Raphaelle in the Vatican, that he took him into his school, where he continued twenty-five years, that is, until his master's death. His graceful, dignified, and beautiful ideas occasioned his being generally employed in painting Madonnas and female saints, and procured for him the name of Carlo delle Madonne. From the finest statues and pictures he made himself master of the most perfect forms and the finest positions of heads, which he sketched with equal ease and grace. He has produced a noble variety of draperies, artfully managed and richly ornamented. He was inimitable in adorning the heads, in the disposal of the hair, and the elegance of his hands and feet, which are little inferior to those of Raphaelle himself. In his younger days he etched a few prints with spirit and correctness, and had the famous engraver Jacob Frey for his pupil. It would be tedious to recount the celebrated paintings executed by this great artist. Besides the famous picture of Daphne, painted for Louis XIV., he made several admirable portraits of popes, cardinals, and other persons of distinction, from whom he received the highest testimonies of esteem, as he likewise did from almost all the monarchs and princes of Europe. He died at Rome in 1713, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. See LANZI.