He was a native of
Scaria, near
Como, in
Lombardy, but may have been from the
Carloni family of
Genoese painters. He was the son of a sculptor, but he preferred painting, and was placed under the care of
Giulio Quaglio. He subsequently trained also with
Giovanni Battista Colomba. He afterwards studied at
Venice and at Rome, with
Francesco Trevisani until he was 23 years of age, when he visited Germany, where he has left works in oil and in fresco at
Ludwigsburg,
Passau,
Linz,
Breslau,
Prague, and
Vienna. He painted large decorative
fresco cycles for palaces in
Vienna,
Prague and
Southern Germany. For example, Carlone is known for painting the ceiling images in the
Upper Belvedere of the
Belvedere palace complex. His
The Glorification of Saints Felix and Adauctus (1759–1761) was commissioned for the
cupola of the church of
San Felice del Benaco on
Lake Garda. He died at
Como. church in
Brescia ==Works==