Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (1616 – 1686)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• He was active mainly in Florence.
• Dolci 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.
• His daughter, Agnese Dolci, also made excellent copies of his works.
• Dolci's daughter, Agnese (died circa 1680), was also a painter.
• Dolci died in Florence in 1686.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Carlo Dolci, Self-portrait, 1674.
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