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DOLCI, Carlo

DOLCI, Carlo Self-Portrait dgd oil painting on canvas
Self-Portrait dgd
Painting ID::  6416
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DOLCI, Carlo Self-Portrait dgd oil painting on canvas



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  DOLCI, Carlo
  Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1616-ca.1686 was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions. He was born in Florence, on his mother's side the grandson of a painter. Although he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific. "He would take weeks over a single foot", according to his biographer Baldinucci.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 excellent copies of his works. Dolci was known for his piety. It is said that every year during Passion Week he painted a half-figure of the Saviour wearing the Crown of Thorns. In 1682, when he saw Giordano,
  Self-Portrait dgd
  1674 Oil on canvas Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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