The Medici's painter
Subtitle: Carlo Dolci and 17th-century Florence
By: edited by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer with Francesca Baldassari
Contributors: Davis Museum and Cultural Center; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780300226881
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Italian Art; Exhibitions; Malerei
Other titles: Carlo Dolci and 17th-century Florence
Description: Carlo Dolci (1616-1687), arguably the greatest painter in 17th-century Florence, was admired and patronized by the city's leading families. Best known for his half-length and single-figure devotional pictures, Dolci was also a gifted painter of altarpieces and portraits. Written by a team of distinguished scholars, The Medici's Painter offers new archival discoveries and insights and features cross-disciplinary approaches to Dolci's life and art and the cultural and political contexts in which he worked. The volume sheds new light on Dolci's significant and impressive body of work. The painter understood the power of his paintings to inspire contemporaries, and his works continue to compel individuals to look closely and feel deeply about art.00Exhibition: Davis Museum, Wellesley, USA (08.02-09.07.2017); Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, USA (24.8.2017-14.01.2018).
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, February 10, 2017-July 9, 2017 and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, August 24, 2017-January 14, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Carlos Dolci: a chronology; title: Diligenza pratica paziente: the painting of Carlo Dolci / Francesca Baldassari; title: Looking at Carlo Dolci / Edward Goldberg; title: Carlo Dolci and the art of the past / Scott Nethersole; title: Doctor and confratello: Antonio Lorenzi's patronage of Carlo Dolci; title: A taste for Carlo Dolci on both sides of the Atlantic / Eve Straussman-Pflanzer; title: Plates: selected works in the exhibition.