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For all your Caracciolo artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Caracciolo Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Caracciolo painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Caracciolo and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Caracciolo experts and Caracciolo certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Caracciolo artworks.

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You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Caracciolo paintings or drawings take longer.

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We perform Giovanni Caracciolo art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Giovanni Caracciolo or we will sell it for you.

Giovanni Caracciolo was an Italian artist and important Neapolitan follower of Caravaggio. Caracciolo was born in Naples. Caravaggio arrived there in late 1606 after killing a man in a brawl in Rome. His stay in the city lasted only about eight months, with another brief visit in 1609/1610, yet his impact on artistic life there was profound. Caracciolo, only a few years younger than Caravaggio, was among the first there to adopt the startling new style with its sombre palette, dramatic tenebrism, and sculptural figures in a shallow picture plane defined by light rather than by perspective. Among the Neapolitan Caravaggisti were Giuseppe Ribera, Carlo Sellitto, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Caracciolo’s pupil, Mattia Preti, then early in his career.

Among the earliest works showing the influence of Caravaggio was the Liberation of St Peter (1608-09), painted for the same church (Chiesa del Monte della Misericordia) and a couple of years after the master’s The Seven Acts of Mercy. His painting became more polished after a trip to Rome in 1614, by which time he had become the leader of the new Neapolitan school, dividing his time between religious subjects (altarpieces and, unusually for a Caravaggist, frescos) and paintings for private patrons.

After 1618 he visited Genoa, Rome and Florence. In Rome he came under the influence of the revived Classicism of the Carracci cousins and the Emilian school, and began working towards a synthesis of their style with his own tenebrism – his Cupid, with its bravura handling of the red cloth, shows the influence of the Carracci synthesis. Back in Naples, he translated this into grandiose, wide-ranging scenes frescos including his masterpiece The Washing of the Feet of 1622, painted for the Certosa di San Martino. He also painted further works in Santa Maria La Nova and San Diego all Ospedaletto.

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