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Carlo Ferrari known as Ferrarin (Verona, 30 September 1813 – Verona, 28 January 1871) was an Italian painter. He completed irregular studies at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona and at the same time practiced as a copyist and restorer in the fresco artist Pietro Nanin's studio. Read the full biography

Carlo Ferrari known as Ferrarin (Verona, 30 September 1813 – Verona, 28 January 1871) was an Italian painter. He completed irregular studies at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona and at the same time practiced as a copyist and restorer in the fresco artist Pietro Nanin's studio. He made his debut at the Fine Arts exhibition of the Academy of Verona in 1837 with a series of city views animated by genre episodes, inspired by Flemish painting, which would become characteristic subjects of his most successful repertoire. During the 1940s he achieved growing public and critical success coinciding with the increase in exhibition activity which saw him present at the Academy of Venice in 1839, at the University of Brescia in 1840 and at the Brera Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan in 1844, establishing himself among the leading Veronese painters at the time of the Restoration. He received important commissions from the city's aristocracy and from the circles of Austrian officers stationed in Verona thanks to the favor granted to him by Marshal Radetzky, the main recipient of his views of the Venice lagoon inspired by the models of the eighteenth-century landscape tradition. He reached the peak of international fame and commercial fortune around 1851, following the visit to his studio by Emperor Franz Joseph who ensured him international clients of the highest rank. In 1898 he participated in the Italian General Exhibition in Turin. In his maturity he combined his intense pictorial and engraving activity, which saw him engaged in the translation of Renaissance works, with that of connoisseur, developed in close contact with the Veronese collector Cesare Bernasconi.