Carlo Natali, also known as il Guardolino, (circa 1592- 1683) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Cremona and Bologna Carlo was initially a pupil of the Mannerist painters Andrea Mainardi and Giovanni Battista Trotti in Cremona.
In Genoa, he painted a frieze for the Palazzo Doria, where he met Giulio Cesare Procaccini (died 1628).
Carlo was the father of one of the Italian painters named Giovanni Battista Natali.
He became a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome, returned to work in Cremona.
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