St. Catherine Reading a Book, detail. Carlo Dolci (1616-1686). Oil on canvas. Residenzgalerie (Salzb
St. Catherine Reading a Book, detail. Carlo Dolci (1616-1686). Oil on canvas. Residenzgalerie (Salzburg, Austria).Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. Dolci works are easily distinguishable by the detail of the composition. Pilkington declared: “His touch inexpressibly neat, and … though he has often been censured for the excessive labor bestowed on his pictures…”Wittkower describes Dolci as the Florentine counterpart, in terms of devotional imaging, of the Roman Sassoferrato. -- source link
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