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After an apprenticeship with Carlo Maratti in Rome, Carlone familiarized himself with Naples, Sicily, and Venice, before he began working as a fresco painter in Perugia and Rome.Beginning in 1678 he was given a number of commissions in Genoa, however, his main activity as a fresco painter continued to be in the Papal States and in Lombardy. His style, based on that of Maratti, represented an "academic" alternative to the dynamic lyricism that was the trademark of the Piola workshop, the leading artists in Genoa.
The Palazzo Brignole Sale (dubbed Palazzo Rosso because of the colour of its stucco exterior) was erected between 1671 and 1679 on the prestigious Strada Nuova (present-day Via Garibaldi) in Genoa. The decoration of the palazzo was accomplished in two phases. In 1687-89 the team of Domenico Piola and Gregorio de Ferrari - with the assistance of Niccolò di Viviano Codazzi (1642-1693), Antonio Maria Haffner (1654-1732) and Sebastiano Monchi (c. 1630-1706) - painted the east wing, including the south loggia, then in 1691-92 the frescoes in the rooms of the west wing were executed by Giovanni Andrea Carlone with the assistance of Antonio Maria Haffner and Carlo Antonio Tavella (1668-1738). The quadratura painter Antonio Maria Haffner worked both for the Piola-Ferrari and Carlone teams.
The picture shows the fresco on the ceiling of a room in the west wing, called the Sala della Vita Humana. The fresco represents the Allegory on the Life of Man.
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