Vincenzo dandini biography

Vincenzo Dandini was an Italian Baroque painter, active mainly in Florence.
Biography.
Vincenzo Dandini, one of the most original and interesting painters of the Florentine seicento, was born in Florence in 1609.

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Biography

Italian painter, part of a family of painters, brother of Cesare Dandini. He first trained with his brother and then matriculated in the Accademia del Disegno in 1631. He worked in Rome c. 1635-36, studying ancient and modern works and also as a member of Pietro da Cortona's workshop. He then returned to Florence and collaborated over the next two decades with his elder brother.

He often worked for the Medici court, particularly for Lorenzo de' Medici, for whom he painted the Adoration of Niobe and Venus, Mercury and Cupid (1637-38; Florence, Uffizi), and later for the Medici tapestry factory (1662-63). Besides working in fresco and making cartoons for tapestries, he produced numerous paintings on literary and religious themes, for example the signed and dated SS Carlo Borromeo and Andrea Zoerandro (1657; Arezzo, Santa Maria in Gradi) and SS Bernardino of Siena and Giovanni Capestrano Adoring the Name of Jesus (1667; Florence, Museo Ognissanti).

His drawings are clearly influenced by his brother and by Pietro da Cortona. Those studies and copies from the Dandini

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Vincenzo Dandini

Vincenzo Dandini (Firenze, 17 marzo1609 – Firenze, 22 aprile1675) è stato un pittoreitaliano.

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Vincenzo Dandini fu uno dei rappresentanti più importanti di una famiglia di pittori fiorentini del Seicento. Fratello minore di Cesare Dandini, fu padre di Ottaviano e di Vincenzo detto "il Giovane", anche loro pittori che lavorarono nella bottega di famiglia, come anche il nipote di Vincenzo, Pier Dandini. Fu il fratello Cesare a intravedere in Vincenzo un talento pittorico e ne fu certo il primo maestro, ma i problemi di Cesare in quel periodo indussero il giovane a rivolgersi anche ad altri maestri, come il Passignano e Matteo Rosselli. Vincenzo sviluppò quindi nei suoi dipinti, rispetto al fratello, una maggiore semplicità ed un'inclinazione più naturalistica.

Tipico di questo momento sarebbe il Suonatore di flauto del Los Angeles County Museum, attribuito a Vincenzo dal Bellesi^[1] e già assegnato a Sigismondo Coccapani e a Bartolomeo Manfredi, che sarebbe la prima testimonianza della sua attività nel

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Biography

Italian artist, part of a family of painters which made a significant contribution to the Florentine Baroque. The polished and elegant style of Cesare Dandini was continued by his younger brother Vincenzo Dandini. Their nephew Pietro Dandini was Vincenzo's pupil, and Pietro's two sons, Ottaviano (1681-1740) and Vincenzo (1686-1734), a Jesuit, worked as painters in Florence.

Cesare Dandini was a precocious artist, who trained first with Francesco Curradi, briefly with Cristofano Allori and then with Domenico Passignano (who returned to Florence in 1616). Our scant knowledge of his life comes from Baldinucci, who wrote that he was an exceptionally beautiful youth (Curradi's model for numerous Madonnas) and was offended by the scurrilous activities in Allori's studio, a reaction that accords with the sense of refinement in his art. He matriculated in 1621 in the Accademia del Disegno; of his documented paintings, the earliest known is a Pietà (1625; Florence, SS Annunziata, sacristy). By 1631, the year in which he painted the Zerbino and Isabella (Florence, Uffizi) f