A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . painted, made the boy known to the Duke and theleaders of society. So the boy Carlo Dolce came upon thetown as an infant prodigy, and was soon overwhelmed withportraits, painting also still life and flowers and fruit for hisConfessor. Then came an Adoration of the Magi for Lorenzode Medici. These early successes were probably better forthe boys pocket than for his art, for his latent gifts werecompelled into the narrow ideals of his day. He vowedhimself to sacred subjects—and on the backs of his picturesare written always the date of
A history of with a preface by Frank Brangwyn . painted, made the boy known to the Duke and theleaders of society. So the boy Carlo Dolce came upon thetown as an infant prodigy, and was soon overwhelmed withportraits, painting also still life and flowers and fruit for hisConfessor. Then came an Adoration of the Magi for Lorenzode Medici. These early successes were probably better forthe boys pocket than for his art, for his latent gifts werecompelled into the narrow ideals of his day. He vowedhimself to sacred subjects—and on the backs of his picturesare written always the date of their commencement and theSaint to whom the day was dedicate. Shortly after painting the allegorical series, of whichPoetry is one, for the Corsini, Dolce was elected in 1648 tothe Academy of Florence. In 1654 he married Teresa diGiovanni, the absent-minded painter forgetting to go to the 48 IV CARLO DOLCE 1616 1686 SCHOOL OF THE ECLECTICSANGEL OF THE ANNUNCIATION (Uffizi Palace, Florence)Painted about 1656 for the house of the Benedictines in Florence. OF PAINTING wedding, and being found, only after a long search, dreamily, WHEREINmooning near a church. The bride forgave the indiscre- WE SEEtion, and the marriage turned out a very happy one. THAT, The ageing painter went to Innsbruck to paint a portrait ^ VLN ASof Claudia, daughter of the Grand Duke Ferdinand and ^~ **J C ^,,TJ, IVT f \ rT*T TIT* Anna de Medici, on that princesss marriage with theEmperor Leopold, and whilst there he touched up several ctt^f OT7masterpieces of the great dead whose works were suffering HILL ttfrom decay—which unfortunately did not strike him as MAY BEsacrilege. It was on his return that he painted his well- ONLY TOknown Sleeping Infant St. John. He now fell into melancholy, FINDand became obsessed with the conviction that his art was GREATERwretched ; however, his friend Baldinucci took him away HEIGHTSto the country, and brought him back cured. * O BE C* T T 1\ /T T) t? T^\ Leading a simpl
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