Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Carlo Dolci (1616-1696) - Florence

Carlo Dolci
Portrait of Archduchess Claudia Felicitas of Austria
1672
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Carlo Dolci
Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

"Son of a tailor, Carlo Dolci was the most important Florentine painter of the 17th century.  He entered the studio of Jacopo Vignali in about 1625, and his prodigious output secured him a high reputation from an early age.  By the 1640s demand for his work had grown to such an extent that he often repeated compositions.  Dolci was a meticulous and also a slow worker.  His highly refined style differs greatly from contemporary Italian painters, and may show the influence of the Dutch pictures to which he would have had access in the Medici collections."

– from curator's notes at the National Gallery, London

Carlo Dolci
Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist
ca. 1665-70
oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Carlo Dolci
Salome with the Head of St John the Baptist
ca. 1681-85
oil on canvas
Glasgow Museums

Carlo Dolci
St Catherine of Siena
ca. 1665
oil on panel
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Carlo Dolci
Tobias and the Archangel Raphael
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
private collection

Carlo Dolci
St Matthew writing his Gospel
ca. 1670-80
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Carlo Dolci
St Christina of Bolsena
ca. 1650-55
oil on panel
National Trust, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire

Carlo Dolci
St John the Baptist
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
National Trust, Hatchlands Park, Surrey

Carlo Dolci
St Andrew praying before his Martyrdom
1643
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Warwickshire

Carlo Dolci
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1633-34
oil on canvas
Glasgow Museums

Carlo Dolci
Virgin and Child with the infant St John the Baptist
ca. 1635-38
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Carlo Dolci
Allegory of Patience
1677
oil on canvas
private collection

Carlo Dolci
Charity
1659
oil on canvas
Museo Civico, Prato

Carlo Dolci
Virgin of the Annunciation
ca. 1650-60
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre