Carlo Maratta studied nearly round-the-clock as a youth in a life "far removed from every form of juvenile levity," according to his early biographer. Maratta arrived in Rome at age twelve and stayed to become one of the city's leading painters of the late 1600s. From the 1650 success of a large altarpiece, Maratta's career was a string of triumphs. By century's end, his late Baroque classicism wa
