Orsino Carota

Orsino Carota (early 16th century – 24 January 1592) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, born in Assisi and active mainly in Perugia. A pupil of the Perugian master Pompeo di Piergentile Cocchi, he is documented in Perugia from 1530 and worked on civic and religious commissions through the later sixteenth century.

Biography Carota is first recorded in 1530 in Perugia, where he apprenticed with Pompeo di Piergentile Cocchi. He died on 24 January 1592 and was buried in the church of San Francesco, near the tomb of his former master Cocchi.