Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1670
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 88.6 × 70.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-111375
The historical significance of the Baroque painter Carlo Dolci, a precocious artist whose skill was recognized early by the leading Florentine patrons of his time, is often diminished due to his traditionalist compositions. Having gained local reputation as a talented portraitist and painter of religious narrative, Dolci's anti-Mannerist technique dismissed many of the leading Baroque trends as superfluous, retaining an unobtrusive and placid style in the manner of those before him. Having been a devout follower of the brotherhood of St. Benedict, Dolci draws upon a strict Christian iconograp…
Provenance
Marlatt Fund, 1968.22
Registry history
- c. 1670 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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