Carlo Dolci

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox artist Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686) was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.

Biography

He was born in Florence, on his mother's side the grandson of a painter. He was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, and when only eleven years of age he attempted a whole figure of St John, and a head of the infant Christ, which received some approbation.Template:Sfn Dolci was not prolific; "He would take weeks over a single foot", according to his biographer Baldinucci.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His painstaking technique made him unsuited for large-scale fresco painting. He painted chiefly sacred subjects, and his works are generally small in scale, although he made a few life-size pictures. He often repeated the same composition in several versions, and his daughter, Agnese Dolci, also made copies of his works.

After attempting the whole figure of St John, and the head of the infant Christ, he painted a portrait of his mother, displaying a new and delicate style which brought him into notice. This procured him extensive employment at Florence (from which city he hardly ever moved) and in other parts of Italy.Template:Sfn

Dolci was known for his piety. It is said that every year during Passion Week he painted a half-figure of the Savior wearing the Crown of Thorns.Template:Sfn In 1682, when he saw Giordano—nicknamed "fa presto" (quick worker)—paint more in five hours than he could have completed in months, he fell into a depression.<ref>Web Gallery of Art biography</ref>

Dolci's daughter, Agnese (died circa 1680), was also a well-known painter.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Two of her paintings, Jesus took bread and blessed it and Maria and Child, were included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Jeanna Bauck as a "German painter" at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition</ref> Her "Consecration of the Bread and Wine" is in the Louvre. Dolci died in Florence in 1686. He was buried in his family tomb in the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence.Template:Sfn

Works

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Saint Paul the Hermit, before 1648, National Museum in Warsaw

The grand manner, vigorous coloration or luminosity, and dynamic emotion of the Bolognese-Roman Baroque are foreign to Dolci and to Baroque Florence. While he fits into a long tradition of prestigious official Florentine painting, Dolci appears constitutionally blind to the new aesthetic, shackled by the Florentine tradition that holds each drawn figure under a microscope of academicism. Wittkower describes him as the Florentine counterpart, in terms of devotional imagery, of the Roman Sassoferrato.Template:Sfn Pilkington declared his touch "inexpressibly neat ... though he has often been censured for the excessive labour bestowed on his pictures, and for giving his carnations more of the appearance of ivory than the look of flesh",<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Sfn a flaw that had been already apparent in Agnolo Bronzino.

Among his best works are a St Sebastian; the Four Evangelists at Florence; Christ Breaking the Bread;<ref>Subsequently at Burleigh</ref> the St Cecilia at the Organ;<ref>In the Dresden Gemäldegalerie.</ref> an Adoration of the Magi in the National Gallery, London; the St Catherine Reading<ref>In the Residenzgalerie, Salzburg.</ref> and St Andrew praying before his Crucifixion (1646) in the Palazzo Pitti.Template:Sfn He completed his portrait of Fra Ainolfo de' Bardi when he was only sixteen. He also painted a large altarpiece (1656) for the church of Sant' Andrea Cennano in Montevarchi. As was typical for Florentine painters, this was a painting about painting, and in it the Virgin of Soriano holds a miraculous and iconic painting of St Dominic.Template:Sfn

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