The Medici's Painter: Carlo Dolci and Seventeenth-Century Florence Paperback – March 7, 2017

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A well-written, beautifully-illustrated introduction to the leading artist of Florence's lesser-known 17th century. Full of surprises, insight and clarity, from a rising star among American curators.

A beautiful -- but rather small -- volume (a paperback) on Carlo Dolci, the 17th century Florentine artist. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibit organized by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College and curated by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer (who also happens to be the editor of this volume) held in 2017 at the Davis Museum, and later at the Nasher Museum. The exhibited works (50+ paintings and some drawings), some of which were loaned by the Ufizzi and the Louvre, are wonderfully reproduced in glorious color in this book. However, if I were to pick a monograph on Carlo Dolci, I would rather much prefer Francesca Baldassari's larger and more extensive volume "Carlo Dolci - Complete Catalogue of Paintings" (updated and re-released in 2015, hardcover, 392 pages, 286 illustrations) which presents all of the artist's works and covers the entire gamut of his life -- from his early artistic training, his mature devotional works, the patronage of the Medicis, his professional decline -- and his eventual death in 1686 at the age of 69.